title: Periradicular healing in response to Diaket root-end filling material with and without tricalcium phosphate.
abstract: The healing of the periradicular tissues was evaluated when the polyvinyl resin Diaket with and without tricalcium phosphate was used as surgical root-end filling material. Non-surgical root canal treatment was performed on 56 mandibular premolar roots in mongrel dogs. Following root-end resection, root-end cavity preparations were filled with Diaket, the comparative material, or Diaket in combination with tricalcium phosphate, the experimental material. Postsurgically, healing of the tissues adjacent to the filling materials and in the surrounding surgical site were evaluated at 30 and 60 days. There was virtually no statistically significant difference between the experimental and comparative group at or within the 30- or 60-day period with regard to inflammation, connective tissue formation, root-end encapsulation, cementum formation, or bone apposition. Findings suggest that cementogenesis occurred over both materials. The overall healing of the periradicular tissues was favourable.
authors.affiliation: Department of Restorative Sciences, Graduate Endodontics, Baylor College of Dentistry, Dallas, Texas 75246-2098, USA.
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Williams
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Gutmann
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001047:Apicoectomy; D001729:Bismuth; D002130:Calcium Phosphates; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D004285:Dogs; D004338:Drug Combinations; D010486:Periapical Tissue / Q000502:physiology*; D011145:Polyvinyls; D012184:Retrograde Obturation; D012387:Root Canal Filling Materials; D014945:Wound Healing; D015034:Zinc Oxide
chemical_list: D002130:Calcium Phosphates; D004338:Drug Combinations; D011145:Polyvinyls; D012387:Root Canal Filling Materials; C485828:alpha-tricalcium phosphate; C485830:tetracalcium phosphate; C014457:bismuth phosphate, copolymers of vinyl acetate, dichlorophen, propionyl-acetophenone, triethanolamine, vinyl chloride, vinylisobutyl ether, zinc oxide drug combination; C485838:calcium phosphate, monobasic, anhydrous; C020243:calcium phosphate; C485829:calcium phosphate, dibasic, anhydrous; D015034:Zinc Oxide; D001729:Bismuth