Glass ionomer cement and compomers - fluoride release
Oliveira LB*, Bönecker M**, Mickenautsch S***
* São Leopoldo Mandic Research Center, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
** School of Dentistry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
*** Division of Public Oral Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Abstract
Glass-ionomers release generally more fluoride than compomers in vitro.
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This record should be cited as: Oliveira LB, Bönecker M, Mickenautsch S. Glass ionomer cement and compomers - fluoride release. Minim Interv Comp Database Syst Rev 2010; 1: RV00520100403
This version first published online: March 04, 2010
Last revised: March 04, 2010
Objectives
To assess whether GIC have releases more fluoride than compomers.
Search strategy
The trials were identified from a search of the PubMed database on: November 25, 2009 using the terms: Fluorides AND Glass Ionomer Cements OR Cermet Cements AND Compomer
Inclusion criteria
All progressive 2-arm in-vitro, in-situ or in-vivo trials; with relevance to review question including computable data; published in English.
Exclusion criteria:
No computable continuous data for both, test- and control group.
Data collection and analysis
The systematic literature search found 47 trials of which 17 were identified to be in line with the inclusion criteria. Of these, 9 in-vitro trials were accepted for data extraction. From the reviewed trials 62 individual datasets were extracted and analyzed.
Main results and Authors' conclusions
The results show a significantly higher fluoride release (p<0.05) of GIC in most datasets. No dataset favoured compomers above GIC in terms of the amount of fluoride released.
