Infuence of irrigation and obturation techniques on artificial lateral root canal filling capacity

Silva, Emmanuel J; Herrera, Daniel R; Souza Júnior, Eduardo J; Teixeira, Joao M

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of two dif-ferent irrigation protocols on artificial lateral root canalfilling capacity using different obturation techniques. Sixtysingle-root human teeth were used. Two artificial lateralcanals were created in the apical third. Root canals wereinstrumented up to a 45 K-file to the working length. Beforeeach file, root canals were irrigated either with 2 mL of 2.5%NaOCl or 2% chlorhexidine gel with further irrigation withsaline solution and 3 mL of 17% EDTA. Specimens were ran-domly divided into three groups according to the obturationtechnique (1) lateral compaction technique; (2) Taggerhybrid technique; and (3) thermoplasticized technique usingBeeFill 2 in 1. All groups used AH Plus as the root canal seal-er. The specimens were decalcified and cleared in methylsalicylate. The total length of lateral canals was observedunder X30 magnification with a stereomicroscope and meas-ured on the buccal and lingual root surfaces using Leica IM50software. The data were submitted to ANOVA and Tukey test(p<0.05). Among the obturation techniques, BeeFill 2 in 1showed deeper penetration into all lateral canals than the lat-eral compaction or Tagger hybrid techniques (p<0.05). Thelateral compaction group showed the worst results (p<0.05).Irrigants did not affect the outcome; there was no differencebetween NaOCl and chlorhexidine when the same obturationtechnique was used (p>0.05). Regardless of the irrigant usedduring endodontic procedures, the thermoplasticized tech-niques showed higher penetration behavior for filling artificiallateral canals than the lateral compaction technique.

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Infuence of irrigation and obturation techniques on artificial lateral root canal filling capacity

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