A experiência do operador no desempenho clínico de restaurações de resina composta em lesões cervicais não cariosas usando diferentes estratégias adesivas: 3 anos de avaliação

Abstract

The aim of this study was to evaluate the influence of the operator skills in your level of experience (student and professional), on clinical performance of the composite restorations in non-carious cervical lesions (NCCL), made by senior year academics of Dentistry of the State University of Ponta Grossa and by professionals with 5 or more years of graduation, those restorations made using 4 different strategies adhesive (etch and rinse of 3 and 2 steps and self etch of 2 or 1 step), applied in random clinical test model. In order to make this study 70 volunteers were selected and put in random form of 2 groups according to the operator: professionals (n=35) and academics(n=35). The 4 adhesive strategies were too divided randomly between NCCL of each volunteer and made following the manufacture´s instructions. The evaluations were done immediately and after 3 years, by evaluaters previously callibrated and blind regarding the used strategy, were made 2 criterios of the evaluation FDI (International Dentistry Federation) and USPHS (Unied States Public Health Services), which or divided in properties such as: fracture and retation; marginal adaptation, marginal staining, pós operative sensibility and recourrence of caries near restoration. Statiscal analyses were performed with Friedman to compare all groups at different times and Wilcoxon between the pairs of the groups (α = 0.05). After 3 years the attendance rate was 74% of the volunteers and we observed that only 5 restorations were lost in the professionals group: 1 by the FL adhesive; 2 by the XTR adhesive; 2 by the AIO adhesive, totaling a 96% retention rate for FL; 92% for XTR; and 92% for AIO. Already in the group of the academics 13 restorations were lost: 5 by the adhesive FL; 2 by the adhesive SP; 4 by the adhesive XTR; and 2 by the AIO, totaling a retention rate of 80% for FL; 92% for SP; 85% for XTR; and 92% for AIO for a period of 3 years. The more complex adhesive techniques (etch and rinse 3-step and self-etch 2-step) seem to present difficulties in applying to both groups of operators (professionals and academics), negatively impacting the retention rate. Thus, other studies and longer periods of evaluation need to be performed to clarify these differences.