Title

Comparative analysis of different pit and fissure sealants' marginal sealing abilities

Authors

Keyur Joshi¹, Saikiran Bahadur^2,*, Pavithraa Jayakumar³, M Arul Pari⁴, Ruchi Garg⁵, Mohamed Tharwat Salama⁶ & Swagatasree Haldar⁷

Affiliation

¹Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, GDCH, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India; ²Departments of Prosthodontics, Springfield Dental, Springfield, Massachussets, United State of America; ³Department of Pedodontics and Preventive Dentistry, Chettinad Dental College and Research Institute, Kelambkkam, Chennai-603103, Tamilnadu, India; ⁴Department of Pediatric and Preventive Dentistry, Sriramchandra Dental College, Porur, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India; ⁵Department of Public Health Dentistry, Swami Devi Dyal Hospital and Dental College, Panchkula, Haryana, India; ⁶Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics and Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Qassim University, KSA and Pedodontics and Department of Preventive Dentistry, Sharad Pawar Dental College and Hospital, Datta Meghe Institute of Higher Education and Research, India; ⁷Intern, Kalinga Institute of Dental Science, Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology (KIIT) Deemed to be University, Patia, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India; *Corresponding author

Email

Keyur Joshi - E-mail: drkeyurjoshi@gmail.com
Saikiran Bahadur - E-mail: kiranmds@umich.edu
Pavithraa Jayakumar - E-mail: drpavithraa25@gmail.com
M Arul Pari - E-mail: arulpari@sriramachandra.edu.in
Ruchi Garg - E-mail: drruchigarg640@gmail.com
Mohamed Tharwat Salama - E-mail: m.salama@qu.edu.sa
Swagatasree Haldar - E-mail: hswagatasree@gmail.com

Article Type

Research Article

Date

Received July 1, 2025; Revised July 31, 2025; Accepted July 31, 2025, Published July 31, 2025

Abstract

It is commonly known that pit and fissure sealants are efficient at preventing occlusal caries. Therefore, it is of interest to assess two distinct pit and fissure sealants' marginal sealing capabilities. A total of forty human premolar teeth were split into two sealant groups: fissuritfx and ultrasealXTplus sealant (group i). The samples were submerged in a 2% methylene blue solution for a full day following the application of the sealant. An optical stereomicroscope was used to examine the sectioned samples. Better performance was found with ultrasealXT plus compared to Fissurit FX.

Keywords

Dental caries, pit and fissure, sealants, ultrasealXT plus

Citation

Joshi et al. Bioinformation 21(7): 2145-2148 (2025)

Edited by

P Babaji

ISSN

0973-2063

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.