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Effect of Nanodiamond Addition on Flexural Strength, Impact Strength, and Surface Roughness of PMMA Denture Base
Fahad A Al-Harbi1, Mohamed S Abdel-Halim1, Mohammed M Gad1
1Department of Substitutive Dental Sciences, College of Dentistry, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
Purpose:
To assess the effect of addition of different concentrations of nanodiamonds (NDs) on flexural strength, impact strength, and surface roughness of heat-polymerized acrylic resin.
Materials And Methods:
120 specimens were fabricated from heat-polymerized acrylic resin. They were divided into a control group of pure polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA; Major.Base.20) and three tested groups (PMMA-ND) with 0.5%wt, 1%wt, and 1.5%wt of added ND to PMMA. Flexural strength was determined using the three-point bending test. Impact strength was recorded by using a Charpy type impact test. Surface roughness test was performed using a Contour GT machine. One-way ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc analysis (p ≤ 0.05) were used for statistical analysis.
Results:
Acrylic resin reinforced with 0.5% ND displayed significantly higher flexural strength than the unreinforced heat-polymerized specimens, acrylic resin reinforced with 1% ND and the 1.5% ND (p < 0.0001). The impact strength of unreinforced heat-polymerized specimens was significantly higher than all nano-composite materials (p < 0.0001) with no significant difference between 1% ND and the 1.5% ND (p > 0.05). The addition of 0.5% ND and 1% ND significantly decreased the surface roughness in comparison to both control and the 1.5% ND groups (p < 0.0001) while no significant differences between 0.5% ND and 1% ND (p > 0.05) were reported. Nano-composite material (0.5% ND) showed significantly lower surface roughness when compared to other specimens.
Conclusions:
The addition of NDs to acrylic denture base improved the flexural strength and surface roughness at low concentrations (0.5%), while the impact strength was decreased with ND addition.
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