title: The acrylic tooth-denture base bond: effect of mechanical preparation and surface treatment.
abstract: The bond strength of acrylic teeth to denture base resins was tested using a widely-accepted technique. The pre-treatments included abrading and grooving the teeth, the application of monomer and the application of a proprietary bonding agent. Each of the 360 specimens was tensile-tested until fracture, using a universal testing machine. When bonded to heat-cured resin, the grooved teeth had the highest mean bond strength while the grooved monomer-treated group had the lowest. When bonded to cold cure resin, the unabraded monomer-treated teeth had the highest mean bond strength and the unabraded group the lowest.
authors.affiliation: Dundee Dental School, Park Place, Dundee.
authors.forename: Adejumoke Adeola
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Adeyemi
authors.forename: Mervyn Frederick
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Lyons
authors.forename: Donald Alexander
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Cameron
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins; D001840:Dental Bonding; D003799:Dental Stress Analysis; D003819:Denture Bases; D016014:Linear Models; D044367:Phase Transition; D013499:Surface Properties; D013718:Tensile Strength; D014093:Tooth, Artificial
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins