EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF SANOSIL DISINFECTANTS ON DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF IMPRESSION MATERIALS

Objectives: For the prevention of the transmission of diseases, control of the infections in dental offices without decrease in the accuracy, preciseness and dimensional stability of the impression materials is much vital. The purpose of this research work was to assess the impacts of disinfectants of Sanosil on dimensional stability of various standard impression materials. Methodology: In this current research work, we used three types of impression materials whose names are alginate, polyether and condensation silicone. We obtained the impressions with the utilization of the master steel model. We immerse 15 impressions of every material Control Group for 10 minutes in the water and the disinfection of the impressions of study groups was carried out with their immersion in 2.0% Sanosil for complete 10 minutes. After that we poured the impressions by Type-3 gypsum in accordance with the instructions of manufacture. We used the digital caliper for the recording of the cast's dimensions in 2 anterior dimensions, for example, interval among anterior posterior abutments and interval among anterior abutments. The accuracy of the digital caliper was 0.010 mm. We used the SPSS software for the statistical analysis of the collected information with the help of two-way ANOVA test method. Results: The findings of this research displayed that there was no important disparity in the average casts' dimensions by various impression materials in the anterior-posterior as well as anterior dimensions as compared to the original model after the disinfection with the use of Sanosil. Conclusions: This current research work discovered that disinfection with the utilization of 2.0% Sanosil has no significant impact on the dimensions of casts of alginates, polyether & silicone as well as their impression and dimensional stability is well-maintained. KEYWORDS: Sanosil, Immersion, Disinfection, Condensation Silicone, Original Model, Dimensions, Polyether