Osvaldo Daniel Andreatta-Filho
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Vinícius Anéas Rodrigues
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Alexandre Luiz Souto Borges
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Paula Carolina Komori de Carvalho
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Renato Sussumu Nishioka
<p class="western" align="justify"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Objective</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">: This study evaluated the hypothesis that different treatments of surface upon three metal alloys for metal ceramic dental prostheses (Gold; Nickel-Chromium; Titanium) do not Influence the values of bond strength with resin cement. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Material and Methods:</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"> Twenty blocks, 5x5x5 mm, of each alloy were divided into two subgroups (n = 10) according to surface treatments: 1 (Primer): sandblasting with aluminum oxide particles 110 µm (Al</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">2</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">O</span></span><sub><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">3</span></span></sub><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">) + Alloy Primer (Kuraray); 2 (Cojet): sandblasting with silica oxide particles with Cojet-Sand + Silane ESPE-Sil. The conditioned blocks of each group were cemented, with Panavia F, to resin blocks under constant load of 750 g/10 min. The sets were cut to obtain 4 samples with dimensions of 10x1x1 mm per block (n = 10) and the adhesive surface with approximately 1 mm</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">2</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">. The microtensile test was done in the universal testing machine at 1 mm/min crosshead speed. The values of bond strength and standard deviation (MPa) were: Au P: 7.33 ± 1.93</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">d</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">; Au C: 13.35 ± 2.18</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">c</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">; NiCr P: 23.56 ± 6.5</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">b</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">; NiCr C: 42.6 ± 5.84</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">a</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">; Ti P: 26.17 ± 1.94</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">b</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">; Ti C: 44.30 ± 2.3</span></span><sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">a</span></span></sup><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">. Data were analyzed by variance test (ANOVA) and Tukey’s test, p < 0.05. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Results: </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US">The results indicated that the conditioning with treatment 2 increased the bond strength between the resin cement and alloys. The lowest bond strengths values were obtained with gold alloy, regardless the surface treatment. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>Conclusion:</strong></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, serif;"><span lang="en-US"> The results denied the hypothesis that the metallic alloys surface treatments do not alter the bond strengths values.</span></span></span></p>