Abstract
The blending effect (BE) plays an important role in esthetics of the composite resin. The objective of this study was to determine the extents to which filler size and content affect the BE. Three types of fillers (0.7, 1.0, and 1.5 µm) were mixed at weight contents of 60, 70, 75, and 80%. This study simulated clinical class 3 or 4 cavities and quantitatively measured the color diffusion of the objects next to the cavities based on the CIELab color space. For each filler size, there was a trend of increasing BE as the filler content was increased. The translucency parameter (TP) exhibited the opposite trend of decreasing (p<0.05) with increases in filler content. The filler size did not affect the BE, and the different filler sizes produced statistically non-significant results in this study. Increases in filler content elevated the opacity of the composite resin and significantly influenced the BE.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | dmj/2016-083 |
| Pages (from-to) | 35-40 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Dental Materials Journal |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue number | 1 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:YR Suh and JS Ahn equally contributed to this article. The resin filler used in this study was a donation from the Schott Glass Company, Germany. This research was supported by Basic Science Research Program through the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) funded by the Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning (NRF-2013R1A1A1076079)
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017, Japanese Society for Dental Materials and Devices. All rights reserved.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ceramics and Composites
- Dentistry(all)