Self-adhesive flowable composite-resin as a fissure sealant. A microleakage study

Indexación: Web of Science; ScieloRESUMEN Objetivo: Evaluar la capacidad de sellado de una resina fluida autoadhesiva (Fusio Liquid Dentin, Pentron Clinical) utilizada como sellante de fosas y fisuras con distintos acondicionamientos de la superficie de esmalte. Materiales y Métodos: Se seleccionaron 140 terceros molares recientemente extraídos, los que fueron distribuidos aleatoriamente en cuatro grupos (n=35) y recibieron una técnica de acondicionamiento del esmalte y aplicación de un sellante. Se establecieron los siguientes grupos: Grupo 1, grabado ácido y aplicación de sellante (Clinpro, 3M ESPE); Grupo 2, grabado ácido y aplicación de resina autoadhesiva (Fusio Liquid Dentin, Pentron Clinical); Grupo 3, aplicación de resina autoadhesiva; Grupo 4, microarenado del esmalte y aplicación de resina autoadhesiva. Los dientes sellados fueron termociclados (500 ciclos, 5-55°C), y posteriormente sumergidos en solución de nitrato de plata amoniacal por 24 h (pH=14) y luego en revelador radiográfico (GBX, Kodak) por 8h. Posteriormente, los dientes fueron cortados para obtener 2 láminas por diente que fueron observadas bajo magnificación (4x) y analizadas digitalmente para evaluar la microinfiltración y la penetración en la fisura. Los resultados fueron analizados estadísticamente (ANOVA, Dunnett, p<0.05). Resultados: La microinfiltración del Grupo 1 (13.18 ± 9.25%) fue significativamente menor que la de los grupos 2, 3 y 4 (p<0.05). La penetración en la fisura en el Grupo 1 (98.92 ± 2.77%) fue mayor que en los otros grupos, siendo esta diferencia significativa sólo con el Grupo 4. Conclusión: Fusio Liquid Dentin tiene una capacidad de sellado inferior a la del sellante convencional Clinpro, independiente del acondicionamiento del esmalte que se utilice.ABSTRACT Aim: To evaluate the sealing ability of a self-adhesive flowable composite-resin (Fusio Liquid Dentin, Pentron Clinical) with different conditioning treatments of the enamel surface used as a fissure sealant. Materials and Method: 140 recently extracted human third molars were selected and randomly divided into four groups (n=35). Each group received an enamel conditioning treatment and a sealant application. The following groups were established: Group 1, acid etching and sealant application (Clinpro, 3M ESPE); Group 2, acid etching and self-adhesive flowable composite-resin (Fusio Liquid Dentin, Pentron Clinical); Group 3, self-adhesive flowable composite-resin; Group 4, sandblasting and self-adhesive flowable composite-resin. Sealed teeth were thermocycled (500 cycles, 5-55ºC) and immersed in ammoniacal silver nitrate solution for 24 h (ph=14). After that, the teeth were immersed in radiographic developer solution (GBX, Kodak) for 8 h. Then, the teeth were vertically sectioned to obtain two slides each that were observed under magnification (4x) and digitally analyzed to assess microleakage and sealant penetration. Results were statistically analyzed (ANOVA, Dunnett, p<0.05). Results: Microleakage of Group 1 (13.18 ± 9.25%) was significantly lower than groups 2, 3 and 4 (p<0.05). Group 1 had the highest sealant penetration mean (98.92 ± 2.77%). Conclusion: Fusio Liquid Dentin had a worse sealing ability than Clinpro irrespective of their enamel conditioning treatment when used as a fissure sealant. Among Fusio’s groups, acid etching was the best enamel surface conditioning treatment.http://www.scielo.cl/pdf/piro/v6n1/art01.pd

Inflammatory response, immunosuppression, and cancer recurrence after perioperative blood transfusion

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CLIWOC multilingual meteorological dictionary

This dictionary is the first attempt to express the wealth of archaic logbook wind force terms in a form that is comprehensible to the modern-day reader. Oliver and Kington (1970) and Lamb (1982) have drawn attention to the importance of logbooks in climatic studies, and Lamb (1991) offered a conversion scale for early eighteenth century English wind force terms, but no studies have thus far pursued the matter to any greater depth. This text attempts to make good this deficiency, and is derived from the research undertaken by the CLIWOC project1 in which British, Dutch, French and Spanish naval and merchant logbooks from the period 1750 to 1850 were used to derive a global database of climatic information. At an early stage in the project it was apparent that many of the logbook weather terms, whilst conforming to a conventional vocabulary, possessed meanings that were unclear to twenty-first century readers or had changed over time. This was particularly the case for the important element of wind force; but no special plea is entered for the evolution in nautical vocabulary, which often reflected more wide-ranging changes in the respective native languages.The key objective was to translate the archaic vocabulary of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century mariner into expressions directly comparable with the Beaufort Scale (see Appendix I). Only then could the projects scientific programme be embarked upon. This dictionary is the result of the largest undertaking into logbook studies that has yet been carried out. Several thousand logbooks from British, Dutch, French and Spanish archives were examined, and the exercise offered a unique opportunity to explore the vocabulary of the one hundred year period beginning in 1750. The logbooks from which the raw data have been abstracted range widely across the North and South Atlantic and the Indian Oceans. Only the Pacific, largely in consequence of the paucity of regular naval activity in that area, is not well represented. The range of climates encountered in this otherwise wide geographic domain gives ample opportunity for the full range of the mariners nautical weather vocabulary to be assessed, from the calms of the Equatorial regions, through the gales of the mid-latitude systems to the fearsome storms of the tropical latitudes. The Trade Winds belts, the Doldrums, the unsettled mid-latitudes, even the icy wastes of the high latitudes, are all embraced in this study. It is not here intended to pass any judgements on the climatological record of the logbooks, and this text seeks only to provide a means of understanding archaic wind force terms and, other than to indicate those items that were not commonly used, no information is given on the frequency with which different terms appeared in the logbooks. Attention is, furthermore, confined to Dutch, English, French and Spanish because these once great imperial powers were the only nations able to support wide-ranging ocean-going fleets with their attendant collections of logbooks and documents over this long period of time. The work is offered to the wider academic community in the hope that they will prove to be of as much value as it has been to the CLIWOC team

Two-dimensional tunneling in a SQUID

Traditionally quantum tunneling in a static SQUID is studied on the basis of a classical trajectory in imaginary time under a two-dimensional potential barrier. The trajectory connects a potential well and an outer region crossing their borders in perpendicular directions. In contrast to that main-path mechanism, a wide set of trajectories with components tangent to the border of the well can constitute an alternative mechanism of multi-path tunneling. The phenomenon is essentially non-one-dimensional. Continuously distributed paths under the barrier result in enhancement of tunneling probability. A type of tunneling mechanism (main-path or multi-path) depends on character of a state in the potential well prior to tunneling.Comment: 9 pages, 8 figure

Poliquetos (Annelida: Polychaeta) del mar Caribe colombiano

El presente listado se ha realizado con información recopilada a partir de varias fuentes bibliográficas (Laverde-Castillo &amp; Rodríguez 1987; Rodríguez 1979; Rodríguez 1988;Dueñas 1999, Londoño et al. 2002) y complementada con material depositado y revisado en el National Museum of Natural History (USNM) en Washington D.C., en el Museode Historia Natural Marina de Colombia en Santa Marta (MHNMC), en la Universidad de CÛrdoba en Montería (UCLZAN) y en colecciones personales

The Triple Higgs Boson Self-Coupling at Future Linear e+e- Colliders Energies: ILC and CLIC

We analyzed the triple Higgs boson self-coupling at future $e^{+}e^{-}$ colliders energies, with the reactions $e^{+}e^{-}\to b \bar b HH, t \bar t HH$. We evaluate the total cross-sections for both $b\bar bHH$ and $t\bar tHH$, and calculate the total number of events considering the complete set of Feynman diagrams at tree-level. We vary the triple coupling $\kappa\lambda_{3H}$ within the range $\kappa=-1$ and +2. The numerical computation is done for the energies expected to be available at a possible Future Linear $e^{+}e^{-}$ Collider with a center-of-mass energy $800, 1000, 1500$ $GeV$ and a luminosity 1000 $fb^{-1}$. Our analysis is also extended to a center-of-mass energy 3 $TeV$ and luminosities of 1000 $fb^{-1}$ and 5000 $fb^{-1}$. We found that for the process $e^{+}e^{-}\to b \bar b HH$, the complete calculation differs only by 3% from the approximate calculation $e^{+}e^{-}\to ZHH(Z\to b\bar b)$, while for the process $e^{+}e^{-}\to t \bar tHH$, the expected number of events, considering the decay products of both $t$ and $H$, is not enough to obtain an accurate determination of the triple Higgs boson self-coupling.Comment: 19 pages, 12 figure

ESTUDIO COMPARATIVO DEL COMPORTAMIENTO FORRAJERO DE SIETE ECOTIPOS DE DIGITARIAS EN SUELOS DE ESPARTILLAR DEL CHACO CENTRAL.

Fueron evaluados siete ecotipos de Digitarias en la Estancia La Hermosa, ubicada en el distrito de Tte. 1º Irala Fernández, departamento de Pte. Hayes, Chaco Central. El periodo evaluado estuvo comprendido entre marzo de 2005 a enero del 2006. Se evaluaron la producción de materia seca en los periodos de otoño, invierno, primavera y verano. El diseño experimental adoptado fue el de bloques completamente al azar con siete tratamientos y tres repeticiones. Los tratamientos consistieron en cada ecotipo de Digitaria. Los cortes de evaluación se efectuaron cada 28 días y en forma sucesiva por un periodo de 11 meses. En el periodo otoñal se registraron rendimientos satisfactorios siendo el ecotipo más productivo Digitaria sp. cv. GL 5 con 8810 kg/ha de masa seca, y el menos productivoDigitaria eriantha var pentzii con 3405 kg/ha. En el periodo de invierno los rendimientos de masa seca disminuyeron en todos los ecotipos así Digitaria sp. cv. GL 5 produjo 2968 kg /ha que fue la mayor producción registrada y 1205 kg/ha la menor producción paraDigitaria eriantha cv. ATF 616. Durante el periodo primaveral se produjo un aumento en la producción de todos los ecotipos siendo Digitaria sp. cv. GL 5 con 5067 kg/ha de masa seca la más productiva en este periodo y Digitaria eriantha var pentzii el de menor rendimiento con 2053 kg/ha. Así mismo en el periodo estival todos los ecotipos expresaron su máxima producción, Digitaria sp. cv. GL 5 fue una vez más el ecotipo con mejor rendimiento con 11 120 kg/ha de masa seca y Digitaria eriantha var pentzii el ecotipo de con más bajo rendimiento