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The smallest marginal gap was recorded in angled crowns with a 6-degree convergence (47 μm mean).
The marginal gap was defined in this study as a distance on the microscope from a point of the tooth margin to the intersecting point between the restoration margin and the line perpendicular to the tangent line to the tooth margin at the tooth margin point.
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McLean and von Fraunhofer [ 44] found that a prosthetic restoration is successful if the marginal gap is less than 120 μm.
With conventional nonadhesive restorations the size of the marginal gap is considered of paramount importance for the (quality of) survival of the restoration and should be as small as possible.
This marginal gap could be an ecological niche for microorganisms [ 14], especially because composites do not have the antibacterial effects of, for example, Hg-ions in amalgam [ 15].
The marginal gap for Finesse® was statistically lower than that for OPC 3G® (62.5 ± 15.5 vs 99.4 ± 11.6 mm; p < 0.05).
The size of the marginal gap may not be as critical when using materials that can be luted adhesively to the tooth substrate, such as glass-ceramics.
With a large marginal gap a highly viscous cement is recommended, when the gap is smaller there is no advantage but also no disadvantage of using a highly viscous cement.
This condition, considered by the evaluators to be either a marginal gap (failure) or not (success), was the main reason influencing their disagreement about the survival outcome.
The marginal gap of a crown was calculated as the mean of the measured four gaps.
The marginal gap of each sample was measured under a stereoscopic microscope at 75x magnification after cementation.
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