Impact of Gluma Desensitizer on the tensile strength of zirconia crowns bonded to dentin: an in vitro study
Stawarczyk, Bogna ; Hartmann, Leonie ; Hartmann, Rahel ; Roos, Malgorzata ; Ender, Andreas ; Özcan, Mutlu ; Sailer, Irena ; Hämmerle, Christoph
In: Clinical Oral Investigations, 2012, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 201-213
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- This study tested the impact of Gluma Desensitizer on the tensile strength of zirconia crowns bonded to dentin. Human teeth were prepared and randomly divided into six groups (N = 144, n = 24 per group). For each tooth, a zirconia crown was manufactured. The zirconia crowns were cemented with: (1) Panavia21 (PAN), (2) Panavia21 combined with Gluma Desensitizer (PAN-G), (3) RelyX Unicem (RXU), (4) RelyX Unicem combined with Gluma Desensitizer (RXU-G), (5) G-Cem (GCM) and (6) G-Cem combined with Gluma Desensitizer (GCM-G). The initial tensile strength was measured in half (n = 12) of each group and the other half (n = 12) subjected to a chewing machine (1.2 Mio, 49N, 5°C/50°C). The cemented crowns were pulled in a Universal Testing Machine (1mm/min, Zwick Z010) until failure occurred and tensile strength was calculated. Data were analyzed with one-way and two-way ANOVA followed by a post hoc Scheffé test, t test and Kaplan-Meier analysis with a Breslow-Gehan analysis test (α = 0.05). After the chewing simulation, the self-adhesive resin cements combined with Gluma Desensitizer showed significantly higher tensile strength (RXU-G, 12.8 ± 4.3MPa; GCM-G, 13.4 ± 6.2MPa) than PAN (7.3 ± 1.7MPa) and PAN-G (0.9 ± 0.6). Within the groups, PAN, PAN-G and RXU resulted in significantly lower values when compared to the initial tensile strength; the values of all other test groups were stable. In this study, self-adhesive resin cements combined with Gluma Desensitizer reached better long-term stability compared to PAN and PAN-G after chewing simulation