A Comparative Study of Contact Angles of Four Different Root Canal Sealers

Journal of Endodontics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 299-302

  Kontakiotis, Evangelos G ^a   Tzanetakis, Giorgos N ^a   Loizides, Alexios L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Endodontist   (Greece)

Author keywords

Contact angle; root canal sealers; wetting behavior

Indexed keywords

DIMETICONE; GUTTA PERCHA; GUTTAFLOW; ROOT CANAL FILLING MATERIAL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTIN; DRUG COMBINATION; EVALUATION; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLAR TOOTH; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; WETTABILITY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTIN; DIMETHYLPOLYSILOXANES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; GUTTA-PERCHA; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MOLAR; ROOT CANAL FILLING MATERIALS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WETTABILITY;

EID: 33847042745     PISSN: 00992399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joen.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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