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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ORAL SCIENCES
Volume 110, Issue 1, Pages 48-53Publisher
BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD
DOI: 10.1046/j.0909-8836.2001.101160.x
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dental biofilm; biofilm vitality; confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM); dental materials
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To investigate the arrangement of biofilms formed in vivo, volunteers wore splints with slabs of six different dental materials inserted to collect smooth surface plaque. After 5 d of undisturbed plaque accumulation, the specimens were vital stained and analyzed by the confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) to evaluate the percentage of vital biofilm microflora (VF percentage). Further parameters were the area of the specimens covered by plaque (surface coatings SC, %) and the height of the biofilms (BH, mum). The metals amalgam and gold, the compomer, as well as the glass-ionomer cement harboured an almost entirely dead biofilm (VF <8%). Resin composite led to vitality values between 4 and 21%, while a very thin biofilm on ceramic revealed the highest vitality values (34 86%). SC varied from 6% on glass-ionomer cement to 100% on amalgam. BH reached its highest value on amalgam and gold of 17 and 11 mum, respectively, while heights of between 1 and 6 mum were found on the ceramic, resin composite, compomer and the glass-ionomer cement. Within their limits, the present findings indicate that amalgam, gold, compomer and glass-ionomer cement exert an influence against the adhering biofilm. No general relationship could be established between the different parameters VF percentage, SC percentage and BH (mum).
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