This study evaluated the shear bond strengths of various types of resin cements between three types of adherends (composite resin, metal, and ceramic) and bovine teeth with and without thermocycling. A conventional resin cement (Variolink N), two adhesive resin cements (PANAVIA F 2.0, Multilink N), and three self-adhesive resin cements (MAXCEM ELITE, Rely X Unicem 2, Speed CEM) were used. The adherends were cemented on the superficial dentin of bovine incisors using each resin cement. Herein, 10 specimens from each group were thermocycled 5,000 times, and the other 10 were stored without thermocycling. With the resin and ceramic adherends, the shear bond strengths of Rely X Unicem 2 were significantly higher than those of the other resin cements both with and without thermocycling (p<0.05). With the metal adherend, the shear bond strengths were not significantly different among the cement groups, except MAXCEM ELITE, which showed the lowest strength.
Keywords: Adherend; Bovine teeth; Resin cement; Shear bond strengths; Thermocycling.