PubMed Health⌕ Search

Biomedical subjects

E E Kepler

Publications and source records attributed to E E Kepler.

7 recordsLinked to original sources
PubMed1984

The effect on dentine permeability of time following cavity preparation in dogs.

Cavities were prepared into the dentine of mandibular first molars of anaesthetized dogs. Conical plastic chambers were cemented into the cavities to permit quantitation of dentine permeability using a fluid-filtration technique. There was a progressive fall in dentine permeability every hour for the 6 h of study, to about 20 per cent of zero time values. The fall in dentine permeability could be delayed but not prevented, by filtering fluid across the dentine into the pulp. Similar experiments on teeth from which the pulps had been removed showed no change or a slight increase in permeability with time. No change in dentine permeability was seen in dogs killed after the zero time measurement and followed for an extra 6 h. This decrease of dentine permeability in response to cavity preparations only occurs in teeth with intact pulps.

Animals↗
PubMed1984

Dentin permeability. Effects of desensitizing dentifrices in vitro.

Patients using placebo dentifrices in clinical trials usually show a significant decrease in dentin sensitivity over a 2- to 4-week period. If their sensitivity were due to hydrodynamic fluid movement, then the results suggest that there was a decrease in their dentin permeability. This hypothesis was tested in vitro by measuring the ease with which fluid could flow (i.e., hydraulic conductance) across dentin discs before and after brushing the discs with a variety of dentifrices, including most of the marketed densensitizing dentifrices. All dentifrices decreased the hydraulic conductance of dentin. An experimental dentifrice containing oxalate as the active ingredient was far more effective than any of the marketed dentifrices. The results tend to support the hypothesis that, at least part of the reduction in clinical sensitivity in patients with hypersensitive dentin is due to the abrasive action of the dentifrice.

Dentifrices↗
PubMed1983

The effects of acid etching on the in-vivo permeability of dentine in the dog.

Cavities were cut in both lower molars of 11 anaesthetized dogs. Dentine permeability was quantitated in these teeth using a filtration technique before and after acid etching to remove the smear layer. Acid-etching increased 5-fold the ease with which fluid could flow across dentine. Under conditions of high fluid filtration, an opening into the pulp chamber from the opposite side of the tooth produced only slight increases in filtration rate, indicating that the rate-limiting step is filtration of fluid across dentine, rather than removal of the fluid by the pulp circulation.

Acid Etching, Dental↗
PubMed1983

Progressive decrease in dentine permeability following cavity preparation.

Dentine permeability determinations were made longitudinally in cavities prepared in dog teeth in vivo, using two different techniques: isotope clearance and fluid filtration. Measurements made with both techniques indicate that there is a large reduction in dentine-permeability within the first week following cavity preparation. The phenomenon requires an intact pulp and is not the result of microleakage of temporary restorations.

Animals↗