It took more than money and man-power to lay the transatlantic cable. Gutta-percha, a natural plastic extracted from trees in Southeast Asia, sparked a craze in Victorian England, leading to its use ...

A commercially available obturation material may better at preventing vertical root fractures than gutta-percha, according to a new systematic review that looked at vertical root fracture incidence in ...

Few materials are as misunderstood, or misidentified as often, as gutta-percha. Pick up a union case in any antiques shop, and odds are good the tag will say "gutta-percha." Wrong. Most likely the ...

Background: Teeth treated endodontically are more susceptible to vertical root fracture (VRF). Some studies have suggested that obturating the root canals with Gutta-percha or Resilon can reinforce ...

China has stepped into the forefront of gutta-percha tree breeding in the world, with four propagation projects for the medicinal tree passing the appraisal of specialists Tuesday in northwest China's ...

TJIPETIR is believed to be the name of a 19th Century rubber plantation About 40 large blocks of a rubber-like substance, believed to be from a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean, have washed up on ...

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A gutta purcha obturator is a hand-held device used in root canal therapy to fill a tooth with gutta purcha, a form of natural rubber. Obturators heat the material before delivering it into the tooth ...