Clinical evaluation and comparison of four different types of tooth coloured restorative materials in non-carious class V lesions –An In vivo study

Purpose of this study was to evaluate and compare the efficacy of four different tooth coloured restorative materials in non-carious cervical lesion in aspect of retention,marginal discolouration,surface roughness and staining.For this study Four experimental groups were made as twenty patients in each group.The groups were namely Group I (GIC),Group II (Giomer),Group III(Flowable Compomer), Group IV(High strength composite restorative material) containing twenty patients in each group (n=20).

Statistical analyses was done using Fischer exact test.The results stated that there is no significant difference between all four restorative materials,as they are particularly better in of those aspect teted for the study. According to this study’s findings, glass ionomer cement has superior retention when it comes to retention properties, followed by Giomer, high strength restorative material (composite), and flowable compomer. Giomer and glass ionomer cement have the strongest stain resistance, whereas flowable compomer and high strength restorative materials (composite) shows least  resistance to staining. However, the restorations performed similarly in terms of surface texture and marginal discolouration, because Giomer outperforms high strength composite restorative material, followed by glass ionomer cement and flowable compomer.