MARGINAL MICROLEAKAGE PROPERTIES OF ACTIVA BIOACTIVE RESTORATIVE AND NANOHYBRID COMPOSITE RESIN USING TWO DIFFERENT ADHESIVES IN NON CARIOUS CERVICAL LESIONS - AN IN VITRO STUDY

*Kaushik M, *Yadav M

Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Army College of Dental Sciences, Secunderabad, Telangana 500087, India.
E-mail: monayadav91@gmail.com

*Correspondence
Grant support: None
Conflict of interest: None

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ABSTRACT

Background: In clinical practice, the restoration of non-carious cervical lesions is a challenge, because most of the time the cervical margin is located in cementum or dentin. This characteristic makes the cervical margin more susceptible to microleakage, causing cavosurface stains, postoperative sensitivity and also favours the incidence of carious lesions.

Aim: To compare and evaluate the microleakage in class V lesions restored with Activa Bioactive restorative and nanohybrid composite resin using two different bonding agents.

Methodology: In this study, 50 class V cavities were prepared in freshly extracted teeth. The samples were randomly divided into 5 groups (n=10), depending on the type of restorative material and bonding agent:
Group 1 - Activa Bioactive (Pulpdent, USA) + No bonding,
Group 2 - Activa Bioactive + Tetric N Bond (Ivoclar Vivadent, Colombia),
Group 3 - Activa Bioactive + G Bond (GC Corp., Tokyo, Japan),
Group 4 - Nanohybrid Composite (Ivoclar Vivadent, Colombia) + Tetric N Bond,
Group 5 - Nanohybrid Composite + G Bond.

The samples were restored with their respective material based on the group. After curing all the specimens were subjected to thermocycling and cyclic loading. Specimens were stained with 2% rhodamin b dye and evaluated for dye penetration.

Results: Results were obtained based on Kruskal Wallis and Mann Whitney U- test.

Conclusion: Within the limitations of this study, none of the materials were free from microleakage. All the materials showed more microleakage at gingival margins compared to occlusal margins. Among all the groups Activa Bioactive restorative when used in combination with Tetric N Bond showed the least microleakage.

Key words: Activa Bioactive, Non Carious Cervical Lesions, Microleakage.

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