title: Comparative study of the fatigue strength of five acrylic denture resins.
abstract: The aim of this in vitro study was to compare the fatigue resistance of three kinds of heat-polymerized acrylic resins (conventional heat-polymerized, rapid heat-polymerized, high impact acrylic resin), a kind of visible light-cured resin and a kind of self-cured acrylic resin. A total of 60 notched and un-notched specimens (65 mm x 10 mm x 3 mm) were fabricated, 12 from each material. The fatigue resistance was measured by applying repeated three-point bending deflection to the specimens. For statistical analysis, Kruskal-Wallis test followed by Dunn's multiple comparison tests were used. The Kruskal-Wallis test revealed significant differences in the fatigue resistance among some groups (p<0.05). Conventional- and rapid-heat polymerized resins had lower fatigue resistance values than heat-polymerized high impact acrylic resin, but the differences were statistically non-significant according to Dunn's test (p>0.05). High impact acrylic resin was also found to have significantly higher fatigue resistance value than that of self-cured resin and light-cured resin (p<0.05). Further, there was no statistically significant difference between the mean fatigue resistance value of visible light-cured resin and self-cured resin (p>0.05).
authors.affiliation: Department of Dentistry, Bakirkoy Research and Training Hospital for Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Istanbul, Turkey. zlmgrbz@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ozlem
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gurbuz
authors.forename: Fatma
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Unalan
authors.forename: Idil
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dikbas
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins / Q000737:chemistry; D003778:Dentures; D006358:Hot Temperature; D008027:Light; D055595:Mechanical Phenomena; D058105:Polymerization / Q000528:radiation effects
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins