TY - JOUR ID - 145735 TI - The Effect of Four Disc-shaped Polishing Systems on the Surface Roughness and Micro-hardness of Clearfil AP-X Esthetics Composite Resin JO - International Journal of Scientific Research in Dental and Medical Sciences JA - IJSRDMS LA - en SN - 2676-5497 AU - Nezhadnasrollah, Fatemeh AU - Fotovat, Farnoush AU - Yousefi, Hossein AU - Fatahi, Mahsa AU - Rasoolinia, Mohsen AD - Department of Restorative and Esthetic Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran AD - Department of Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran AD - Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Dental Research Institute, School of Dentistry, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran AD - Department of Operative Dentistry, Faculty of Dentistry, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran AD - School of Dentistry, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran Y1 - 2022 PY - 2022 VL - 4 IS - 1 SP - 16 EP - 20 KW - Composite Resins KW - Dental polishing KW - Hardness Tests DO - 10.30485/ijsrdms.2022.331297.1257 N2 - Background and aim: Polishing techniques are important in preserving the beauty and success of composite restorations. This study evaluated the surface roughness and micro-hardness of CLEARFIL AP-X Esthetics composite polished by different polishing systems.Material and methods: A total of 50disc-shaped CLEARFIL AP-X Esthetics composite were prepared. Composite discs were divided into five groups. The first group was not polished, and other groups were polished by four types of polishing discs and were classified as follows: group 2: polished by Sof-lex disc, group 3: Optidisc, group 4: Dental finishing disc, group 5: Praxis polishing disc. All the specimens were stored in distilled water at 37 ° C for 24 hours, and after that, the surface roughness of composite samples was measured by a profilometer. After profilometry, the microhardness of samples was measured by the Vickers test. The data were analyzed using a one-way ANOVA test.Results: The results indicated that the Sof-lex group had the lowest surface roughness with an average of 0.078±0.017, comparable with the control group(0.069±0.011). Statistical analysis demonstrated that surface roughness between different polishing systems was statistically significant (p<0.001). In addition, Praxis polishing disk with an average of 405.13±3.278 had the greatest micro-hardness than the control group (287.17±2.302 ), and an average of micro-hardness between different kinds of disc-shaped polishing systems was statistically significant (p<0.001).Conclusions: Our results demonstrated that the Sof-Lex polishing system was more successful than other polishing systems in the finishing and polishing CLEARFIL AP-X Esthetics composite. UR - http://www.ijsrdms.com/article_145735.html L1 - http://www.ijsrdms.com/article_145735_63979c95992ee32dd38064df1b7c6f89.pdf ER -