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- Title
Five-year experience with fissure sealing.
- Authors
Vrbič, Vito
- Abstract
The article presents information on the findings of a 5 year trial designed to evaluate the retention of fissure sealant in the Republic of Slovenia, Yugoslavia. Subjects for the study were a group of preschool children with one or two sound pairs of primary molars and a second group of children with one sound pair of permanent first molars in the same jaw. In the permanent teeth, full retention of the sealant was found in 93% after one year and in 52% population after five years. Under the study, the retention of a sealant was studied on 293 first permanent molars and 60 primary molars of children.
- Subjects
SLOVENIA; YUGOSLAVIA; PIT &; fissure sealants (Dentistry); PRESCHOOL children; DENTAL adhesives; DENTAL resins; DENTAL bonding; DENTAL materials; DENTAL care
- Publication
Quintessence International, 1986, Vol 17, Issue 6, p371
- ISSN
0033-6572
- Publication type
Article