Dentine demineralization when subjected to EDTA with or without various wetting agents: a co‐site digital optical microscopy study
- 21 January 2008
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in International Endodontic Journal
- Vol. 41 (4), 279-287
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2591.2007.01345.x
Abstract
To analyse quantitatively the chelating ability of ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) and three common EDTA-based associations with wetting agents. Twelve maxillary human molars were selected, from which 3 mm thick discs were obtained from the cervical third of the root. Following the creation of standardized smear layer co-site microscopy image sequences of the dentine surface submitted to EDTA, EDTA plus 0.1% cetavlon (Sigma Chemical Co., St Louis, MO, USA), EDTA plus 1.25% sodium lauryl ether sulphate and SmearClear (Sybron Endo, Orange, CA, USA) were obtained after several cumulative demineralization times. Sixteen images were obtained of each dentine sample for each experimental time, at 1000 x magnification. An image processing and analysis sequence was used to measure the area of open tubules for each experimental time. Thus, it was possible to follow the demineralization process and quantitatively analyse the effect of the various substances. The Student's t-test was used to assess differences between experimental groups. Results EDTA solution had the strongest effect at all experimental times whilst the association of EDTA with wetting agents showed a weaker chelating effect and this difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05). (i) The EDTA solution had the strongest effect at all experimental times (P < 0.05); (ii) the association of EDTA with wetting agents did not improve the chelating power of the solution; (iii) co-site optical microscopy represents a powerful approach to compare directly, longitudinally and quantitatively the ability of the chelating solutions.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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