Tensile bond strength of soft and hard relining materials to conventional and additively manufactured denture-base materials

Abstract

Purpose: Studies comparing tensile bond strength of various soft and hard denture liner materials to conventionally and additively manufactured denture base resins are lacking. The purpose of this study was to investigate the tensile bond strength between chair- and laboratory-side soft and hard relining materials and denture-base materials produced by additive manufacturing and conventional methods.

Materials and methods: A total of 120 dimethacrylate-based additively manufactured and polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA)-based conventionally fabricated dumbbell-shaped denture-base resins were produced. Heat-cured laboratory-side soft reline material, self-cured chair-side soft reline material, and self-cured chair-side hard reline material were attached to the denture bases. The tensile force was applied to the specimens with a universal testing machine at a crosshead speed of 5 mm/min. The obtained data were analyzed with two-way ANOVA and post hoc Tukey tests. The significance level was set at α = 0.05.

Results: The highest tensile bond strength values were obtained in the specimens from the conventionally manufactured base and self-cured chair-side hard reline material group, and the lowest was seen in the additively fabricated base and self-cured chair-side soft reline material group (p < 0.001). Conventionally manufactured base material's tensile bond strength was higher than that of additively fabricated resin, and self-cured chair-side hard reline material's strength was higher than that of laboratory-side and chair-side soft reline materials (p < 0.001). However, no significant difference emerged between laboratory-side and chair-side soft reline materials (p = 0.405).

Conclusions: All the specimens used in the present study had tensile bonding stress values for clinical use. Both denture base resins provided an increased bond to the chair-side hard relining material, although an improved bond did not emerge for the chair-side and laboratory-side soft denture reline materials.

Keywords: 3D printed dentures; additive manufacturing; denture base; denture liner.