Surface treatment and adhesion approaches on polymer-infiltrated ceramic network

Michele Mirian May,Liliana Gressler May,Juliane Bortolotto Da Rosa,Camila Da Silva Rodrigues,Júlia Persio Herrmann

doi:10.20396/bjos.v20i00.8661670

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Aim: To evaluate the effect of different surface treatments and adhesive approaches on the microshear bond strength of resin cement to a polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (PICN). Methods: PICN blocks were randomly assigned into 9 groups (n=10): CTRL: no treatment; HF: 5% hydrofluoric acid etching; HF-S: HF + silane; HF-S-A: HF-S + adhesive (Adper Single Bond 2); HF-UA: HF + universal adhesive (Single Bond Universal); SB: sandblasting with 50 μm Al2O3 particles; SB-S: SB + silane; SB-S-A: SB-S + adhesive; SB-UA: SB + universal adhesive. Resin cement microcylinders (Ø = 0.96 mm; height = 1 mm) (RelyX Ultimate) were built upon the PICN surface after roughness and contact angle measurements. Next, microshear bonding tests (μSBS) were performed (0.5 mm/min) after water storage (37ºC, 90 days) and thermocycling (12,000 cycles; 5ºC-55ºC). Failure modes were observed under stereomicroscope. Bond strength data were analyzed by two-way ANOVA/Tukey’s test and t-tests. Kruskal-Wallis/Dunn’s tests were conducted for roughness and contact angle data (α = 0.05). Results: A rougher surface and lower contact angles were observed for Sandblasting. HF-S (18.54 ± 2.03 MPa), SB-S (19.00 ± 1.66 MPa) and SB-UA (18.07 ± 2.36 MPa) provided the highest bond strength values, followed by the other treated groups. The CTRL group resulted in lower bond strength (7.18 ± 2.34 MPa). Conclusion: Hydrofluoric acid etching followed by silane application and sandblasting followed by silane or universal adhesive are useful clinical steps to enhance bonding to PICN. Adhesive applications after HF etching have no advantages in bonding to PICN.

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Polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (PICN) is a restorative material for use in CAD/CAM
polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (PICN) blocks were randomly assigned into 9 groups (n=10): CTRL: no treatment; Hydrofluoric acid etching (HF): 5% hydrofluoric acid etching; HF-S: HF + silane; HF-S-A: HF-S + adhesive (Adper Single Bond 2); HF etching followed by universal adhesive treatment (HF-UA): HF + universal adhesive (Single Bond Universal); SB: sandblasting with 50 μm Al2O3 particles; SB-S: SB + silane; SB-S-A: SB-S + adhesive; sandblasted group followed by universal adhesive (SB-UA): SB + universal adhesive
Hydrofluoric acid etching followed by silane application and sandblasting followed by silane or universal adhesive are useful clinical steps to enhance bonding to PICN

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Polymer-infiltrated ceramic network (PICN) is a restorative material for use in CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing). It promises to combine the qualities of ceramics such as durability, color stability, and the improved flexural properties and low abrasiveness from the resin composites[1,2,3,4,5]. Adhesive bonding is related to a higher fracture strength of indirect restorations and restored teeth[4,9,10]. Methods which increase the surface properties would be clinically advantageous in order to improve the adhesive bond to ceramic surfaces[7,11,12,13], promoting micromechanical interlocking[14,15,16] and/or surface reactivity for chemical bonding[17,18,19]

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