Obturation Flashcards
Who introduced gutta percha as a filling material?
Bowman
Who introduced silver points as a filling material and when?
Trebitsch 1929
Who listed the ten properties of a good root canal cement?
Grossman 1958
Who created what is now tubli-seal?
Grossman
Who first introduced warm vertical condensation?
Schilder 1967
Describe Schilder’s technique for vertical condensation
Master apical cone placed, “spreaders” remove all but the last 3-5 mm, the 2-4 mm plugs of heated gutta percha are condensed with pluggers that get incrementally larger in size.
Who found that gutta percha is less compressible than water?
Schilder and Goodman
Schilder and Goodman found that gutta percha is _______ not _________
compactable not compressible
Who demonstrated dye penetration after condensation with all known techniques unless cementing agent was used? (ie gutta percha cannot seal by itself)
Schilder
According to ______, the reduction in apparent volume during condensation is due to what?
Schilder, Consolidation and collapse of internal voids.
color of gutta percha
yellowish brown
What is gutta percha? Where does it come from?
a naturally occuring polymer of isoprene. The Taban tree
Difference between gutta-percha and rubber?
They are isomers:
Rubber: CH2 groups are on same side (cis).
Gutta percha: CH2 groups are on opposite sides (trans)
Three differences in properties of gutta percha and rubber?
Why?
Gutta percha is harder, more brittle, and less elastic (b/c it’s trans, so CH2 groups are on opposite sides, which makes the polymer more linear so it crystalizes more easily)
Who found that gutta percha could exist in two different forms? Called them?
CH Bunn alpha and beta
Which type of gutta percha has a lower melting point?
beta
No difference in ______ properties of alpha and beta gutta percha, but there are ______ and ______ differences
mechanical,
thermal and volumetric
Phase transitions of gutta percha as heated? Says who?
beta to alpha 42 to 49 degrees celcius
alpha to amorphous 53 to 59 degrees celcius
schilder
Largest component of dental gutta-percha?
zinc oxide
3 fold test for a good root canal cement?
offers some resistance to spatulation
doesn’t drop off the spatula in 12 to 15 seconds when held vertically
strings out for 2.5 cm before breaking
who said no correlation between particle size and flow rate in root canal cements?
Goodman
component of root canal cement that accelerates set? Retards set?
accelerates: bismuth subnitrate
retards: sodium borate
Who introduced injectable gutta percha as an obturation technique (did in vitro)? When?
Yee 1977
What obturation technique did Yee say in his 1977 study is a viable obturation method?
Injection technique