Authors: Bhandari, Sweta; Kuehne, Sarah; Camilleri, Josette.
OdneFill: Assessment of a light curable hydrogel to be used for root canal obturation
Journal of Dental Research
OdneFill is a new light-curable injectable material that eliminates the need for gutta-percha points enabling more conservative root canal preparation that allow teeth to retain their own natural anatomy. This study evaluates OdneFill’s physical, chemical, and antimicrobial properties, including flow, film thickness, radiopacity, solubility, contact angle and resistance to microbial degradation. OdneFill demonstrates comparable physical properties to AH Plus and BioRoot RCS, with superior antimicrobial characteristics. Additionally, the novel sealer was observed to be stable in contact with irrigation solutions and bacterial enzymes. These findings position OdneFill as a highly effective root canal-filling material.
About the author
Josette Camilleri obtained her Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Master of Philosophy in Dental Surgery from the University of Malta. She completed her doctoral degree, supervised by the late Professor Tom Pitt Ford, at Guy’s Hospital, King’s College London. She has worked at the Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Faculty for the Built Environment, University of Malta and at the Department of Restorative Dentistry, Faculty of Dental Surgery, University of Malta, Malta.
She is currently Head of Dentistry and Professor of Endodontics and Applied Materials within the University of Birmingham’s College of Medicine and Health. Her research interests include material characterization with special interest in endodontic materials and hydraulic cements. She has been instrumental in development of hydraulic materials for endodontic applications and also discovered the mechanisms of tooth discolouration caused by bismuth oxide in dental cements.
Josette is highly published and has an international ranking as a materials scientist and as a clinical academic. In 2018, she has been awarded the Louis Grossman prize by the French Endodontic Society and is the first female recipient of this prestigious award. She is also co-founder of Birmingham Materials Testing Services BiMaTs which is an operating division of University of Birmingham Enterprise.