Sealing evaluation of mineral trioxide aggregate and pasta LC in retrofilling

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the apical sealing of two materials in root-end filling. For this, thirty-three permanent human teeth were root-end prepared divided in three groups randomly, with eleven teeth in each one. The following materials were used: G1 = Pasta LC, G2 = MTA and G3 = LC+MTA. The samples were waterproofed and immersed in fetal bovine serum for 48 hours. After, the roots were separated longitudinally for measuring the infiltration by scores. The results were similar among the groups after submitted to the analysis statistics using the test of Kruskal-Wallis