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Shade Stability of Polymer Infiltrated and Resin Nano Ceramic Crowns after Dynamic Chewing Simulation
1University of Leipzig.
Objective:
Investigation of the shade stability of polymer-infiltrated and resin nano ceramic crowns before and after artificial aging.
Method:
40 identical crowns of each of the materials VITA Enamic (VE) and Lava Ultimate (LU) were manufactured. Half of the crowns went through a dynamic chewing simulation (CS) with thermocycling. Material subgroups: 1. VE, 2. VE/CS, 3. LU, 4. LU/CS (each n=20). These were divided into 4 groups (n=5) and distributed in usual stain solutions. The shade of each crown was measured occlusally and vestibularly before and after insertion using a spectrophotometer (n=5). The data were analyzed using ANOVA and Tukey's test (p≤0.05).
Results:
Sum scores (SSC) of the occlusal ΔE values: LU/CS: 7.99, VE: 5.75 VE/CS: 5.44, LU: 5.17. The total sum of the SSC yielded, for the materials: SSCtotal(VE): 20.0 and SSCtotal(LU): 24.0.
Significance:
Occlusally, there were significant shade differences for VE/CS (p=0.025) and LU/CS (p=0.014) between red wine and distilled water. LU/CS is significantly more clearly stained occlusally by coffee in comparison to the other three material subgroups (VE: p=0.007, LU: p=0.026, VE/CS: p=0.013).
Conclusions:
The shade stability of VITA Enamic crowns is superior to that of Lava Ultimate crowns. Only Lava Ultimate is affected by chewing simulation.
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