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Quality of dental restorations. FDI Commission Pro... - ResearchGate

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135abcdeFigure 4 (a–e). Old composite resin <strong>restorations</strong> remaining in situ due to patient satisfaction. Other patients, as well as clinicians, might wellconsider the <strong>restorations</strong> ‘unacceptable’.caries risk increases significantly.Wood et al. 183 studied 54 pairs <strong>of</strong>Class V amalgam and glassionomercement <strong>restorations</strong> overtwo years in 36 xerostomic cancerpatients. Survival times were veryshort (8.5 months) for all <strong>restorations</strong>.Among the individuals usingfluoride, 8 per cent <strong>of</strong> the glassionomercement and 100 per cent<strong>of</strong> the amalgam <strong>restorations</strong>survived after six months. For thesubgroup <strong>of</strong> eight non-fluorideusers survivals were approximately100 per cent and 24 per cent. Thus,the degree <strong>of</strong> fluoride use wasassociated with the rate <strong>of</strong> restorationfailure.Caries activity might be expectedto affect the performance <strong>of</strong><strong>restorations</strong>; however, there are fewdata on this aspect. In a longitudinalstudy <strong>of</strong> 242 tunnel <strong>restorations</strong>in 142 individuals, the cumulativeproportion <strong>of</strong> successful <strong>restorations</strong>was 81 per cent after twoyears and 64 per cent after 3.5 years.<strong>FDI</strong> <strong>Commission</strong>, Jokstad et al.: <strong>Quality</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>dental</strong> <strong>restorations</strong>

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