Technique-dependent differences in internal adaptation, porosity and degree of conversion of short fibre-reinforced composite restorations in deep MOD cavities
András Gábor Jakab, Alíz Alföldi, Zsuzsanna Őri, Tamás Kiss, Kata Bankó, Viktória Néma, Sándor Kunsági-Máté, József Szalma, Márk Fráter, Edina Lempel · 2026
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András Gábor Jakab and co-authors, in 2026, compared five ways of placing fibre-reinforced filling material in deep tooth cavities using laboratory models. Such fillings must hug the cavity walls without voids. They must also harden fully under light. The team tested flowable bulk-fill versions and layered blends. A fibre mesh and a snowplow pairing were also tried, against ordinary layered composite.
Each method was used 20 times. Micro-CT scans measured internal gaps and trapped pores, while light-scattering tests measured hardening at three depths. Simple flowable bulk-fill approaches left the smallest gaps, around half a percent of the interface, while the fibre mesh produced the largest gaps, near 2.78 percent. The snowplow method hardened best but trapped the most pores. Hardening overall ranged from about 75 to 88 percent.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | András Gábor Jakab, Alíz Alföldi, Zsuzsanna Őri, Tamás Kiss, Kata Bankó, Viktória Néma, Sándor Kunsági-Máté, József Szalma, Márk Fráter, Edina Lempel |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |