title: Retentive characteristics of a vinylpolysiloxane overdenture attachment system.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Numerous different attachments are used to retain overdentures on implants. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a new chairside attachment system based on polyvinylsiloxane (PVS).
  
  
  METHODS
  A total of 250 specimens were fabricated (n = 10) to measure the retention force (RF) in dependence of the following parameters: fatigue (after 100, 200, 500, 1,000, and 5,000 cycles of dislodging), thermal undulation (10,000 cycles between 5 and 55 °C), implant angulation (0°, 5°, and 10°), and disinfection (three different agents). Three different PVS materials (shore hardness (SH), SH25, SH50, and SH65) were evaluated; locator attachments (LR blue) served as controls. Data were imported into a statistical program and analyzed at a 5 % level of significance.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Initial RFs were dependent on the shore hardness (p ≤ 0.001, ANOVA). No changes in RFs were observed for PVS groups after repeated dislodging and thermal undulation. Locator attachments revealed a significant decrease in retention force of up to 58 % (p ≤ 0.001, Fig. 3). No significant changes in RFs were induced by implant angulation. Retention force was decreased in some PVS groups after storage in disinfection solution.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Polyvinylsiloxane attachments provide an alternative to locator attachments, exhibiting better stability of the retention force.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The presented directly fabricated chairside attachment system represents RFs superior to existing attachment systems after artificial aging.
authors.affiliation: Department of Prosthodontics, University of Halle, Grosse Steinstrasse 19, 06108, Halle, Germany.
authors.forename: Ramona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schweyen
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Beuer
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Arnold
authors.forename: Jeremias
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hey
mesh_terms: D019094:Dental Prosthesis, Implant-Supported; D003799:Dental Stress Analysis; D003834:Denture Precision Attachment; D003828:Denture, Overlay; D006801:Humans; D011145:Polyvinyls / Q000737:chemistry*; D012833:Siloxanes / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D011145:Polyvinyls; D012833:Siloxanes; C034183:vinyl polysiloxane