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International Journal of Dentistry
Volume 2011 (2011), Article ID 541831, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2011/541831
Research Article

Removal of Gutta-Percha/Zinc-Oxide-Eugenol Sealer or Gutta-Percha/Epoxy Resin Sealer from Severely Curved Canals: An In Vitro Study

Santhoshini Reddy,1 Prasanna Neelakantan,1 Mohammad Ali Saghiri,2 Mehrdad Lotfi,3 Chandragiri Venkata Subbarao,1 Franklin Garcia-Godoy,4 and James L. Gutmann5

1Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Saveetha Dental College and Hospitals, Saveetha University, Chennai 600 077, India
2Department of Dental Material, Islamic Azad University, Dental Branch, Tehran, Iran
3Research Center for Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology and Department of Endodontics, Dental Faculty, Tabriz University (Medical Sciences), Tabriz, Iran
4Bioscience Research Center, College of Dentistry, The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN, USA
5Baylor College of Dentistry, Texas A&M Health Science Center, Dallas, Texas, USA

Received 3 July 2011; Revised 25 August 2011; Accepted 25 August 2011

Academic Editor: Ali I. Abdalla

Copyright © 2011 Santhoshini Reddy et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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