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Diametral tensile strength of four composite resin core materials with and without centered fiber dowels
Cornel H Driessen1, Donatta Y-J Ji, Amin S Rizkalla
1Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.
Abstract:
This study evaluated the diametral tensile strength of composite resin core materials with and without fiber dowels. Eight groups were established (n = 20), four with composite resins and four with fiber dowels. Samples were tested using a universal testing machine and evaluated using scanning electron microscopy. One-way ANOVA and a Tukey B-rank order test (P = 0.05) indicated that the tensile values of two of the four composite resins decreased significantly when their matching fiber dowels were introduced.
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