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Background and aims. The aim of this study was to compare flexural strength of specimens processed by conventional and injection-molding techniques. Materials and methods. Conventional pressure-packed PMMA was used for conventional pressure-packed and injection-molded PMMA was used for injection-molding techniques. After processing, 15 specimens w...

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... resin polymers have been introduced as denture base materials and the majority of denture bases are fabricated using polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA). These materials have optimal physical properties and excellent esthetics with relatively low 1 toxicity compared to other plastic denture bases. Compression molding with heat activation in a water bath for resin polymerization is the conventional me- 2 thod to process dentures. However, shrinkage and dimensional change of denture bases during resin polymerization is unavoidable and has been well do- cumented. Mechanical behavior of the denture base, including flexural strength, depends on the type of 3 the material and even on processing techniques. Therefore, acrylic resins and processing methods have been modified to improve physical and chemical properties of denture bases. One example is the introduction of injection-molding technique. 4 In 1942, Pryor introduced the injection-molding technique to overcome the adverse effects of com- 5 pression molding. Grunewald et al investigated Pryor’s technique and reported no significant advantages over the conventional method. Several injec- tion-molded denture base materials and processing techniques are now available, with each claimed to 6,7 produce denture bases with better properties. Ivocolar acrylic resins are one of the important resins 1 among complete denture materials. Therefore, in this study, Ivocolar acrylic resins were used as a con- trol (SR-Ivocap Triplex Hot) and experimental groups (SR-Ivocap High Impact), which had the most similarities in chemical structures according to manufactures’ claims. Previous studies have compared injection and conventional molding methods by use of acrylic resins with different systems and brands with principal differences in chemical struc- 8-10 tures. As a result, in the current study we tried to use the materials with the most similarity. Other drawbacks and shortcomings of previous studies were the fact that they evaluated flexural strength by production of specimens with various shapes (dentures and denture-shaped specimens). In the present study, rectangular specimens were examined and thus, variables such as shape, size and thickness of the samples were controlled. The aim of this study was to compare the flexural strength of rectangular resin specimens cured by conventional processing method versus SR-Ivocap injection-molding system. In this study, flexural strength of conventional pressure-packed PMMA (SR-Ivocap Triplex Hot, Ivoclar Vivadent, Liechtenstein) was compared to those of injection-molded PMMA base material (SR-Ivocap High Impact, Ivoclar Vivadent, Liechtenstein). Three rectangular stainless steel plates were fabricated (Figure 1) to prepare 15 acrylic resin specimens (Figure 2) with a nominal size of 50×20×4 mm, for conventional and injection-molding methods. Two layers of wax (Cavex, Netherlands) were placed on stainless steel plates and flasked. To em- bed the flasks, type III dental stone (Herodent; Vigodent, Petropolis, RJ, Brazil) was used and mixed according to manufacturer's instructions (100 g of powder with 30 mL of water). The liquid-to-powder ratio of SR Triplex Hot resin was 10 mL of liquid to 23 g of powder. The acrylic resin was mixed according to manufacturer’s rec- ommendations and packed in the flask. Conventional PMMA specimens were fabricated using a conventional flasking and pressure-pack technique. Polymerization of the resin was carried out in boiling water under a pressure of 100 N for 45 minutes. After polymerization, the curing flasks were bench- cooled to room temperature, and the specimens were deflasked. The surfaces were finished using 800-, 400- and 200-grit sandpapers (Norton; Saint-Gobain Abrasivos, Brasil). For the injection-molded technique, the specimens were flasked according to manufacturer’s instructions using the Ivocap flask. Premeasured SR-Ivocap capsules of resin and monomer (20 g powder, 30 mL monomer) were mixed in Cap vibrator (Ivoclar AG) for 5 minutes before injecting into the flask. For curing process of the SR-Ivocap system, hydraulic pressure of 6 atm at 100°C was maintained for 35 minutes. A 10-minute cooling process using running water with a pressure of 6 atm was used before de fl asking the denture. Finally, there was a further l0-minute cooling period, but without any extra pressure. Then the specimens were dedeflasked and the surfaces were finished using 800-, 400- and 200-grit sandpapers (Norton; Saint-Gobain Abrasivos, Brasil). All the specimens were stored in distilled water at room temperature for 10 days before flexural strength test. The tests were carried out immediately after retrieving the specimens from distilled water without drying the specimens. For flexural test, a universal testing machine (Model STM-50, Santam, Tehran, Iran) was used (Figure 3). The distance between the specimen supports was 40 mm and the loading force was applied to the specimens at a crosshead speed of 5 mm/min until the specimens fractured. The diameter of loading and supporting plunger was 20 mm. The maximum load exerted on the specimens was recorded, and the flexural strength was calculated 11 according to the following formula: 2 F=3WL/2bd [F: flexural strength; W: load at fracture; L: distance between supporting points (40 mm); b: width of specimens (mm); d: specimen thickness (mm)] Flexural strength was calculated in MPa. Following data collection, statistical analysis was carried out by SPSS (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) using t-test. Statistical significance was defined at P<0.05. A summary of the flexural strength in conventional pressure-packed and injection-molded SR-Ivocap is shown in Table 1. Flexural strength of injection- polymerized acrylic resin specimens was higher than that of the conventional method. T-test showed that the difference was statistically significant (P=0.006). This study evaluated the flexural strength of rectangular specimens produced using injection-molding and compression-molding techniques with thermally activated PMMA resin. Conventional method is the most applicable method for curing acrylic resin due to its simplicity and relatively good accuracy and in various studies this method has been considered the gold standard for comparison with the other techniques. 2 Among denture processing methods, injection molding has always been interesting for re- searchers because of compensation of polymerization shrinkage due to the pressure exerted by injec- 1 tion of the acrylic resin. 12 Wolfaardt reported that many different factors af- fected physical properties of acrylic resin dentures. 13 14 Factors such as size and shape, denture thickness, 15 different types of denture base materials, and pres- 16 ence of teeth can influence the physical and mechanical characteristics of bases during denture processing. Many studies have evaluated the physical properties of denture bases by production of different specimens with various shapes. Therefore, it is better to use specimens with simple shapes for comparison of properties instead of dentures and denture- shaped specimens. In the present study, rectangular specimens were examined and thus, variables such as shape, size, and thickness of the samples were controlled. By this approach, the physical properties were directly related to acrylic resin itself. Similar to the present study, Salim 17 and Baydas 18 used rectangular acrylic resin plates for their evaluation. In con- trast, complete denture bases were utilized in sepa- 19 20 rate research studies by Jackson, Nogueira, Ab- 21 22 by and Venus. In most studies, only the molding technique has been considered as variables that affect the physical and mechanical properties of dentures and less atten- tion has been focused on the effect of different types of acrylic resins used for molding. Differences in acrylic resin brands may be considered another vari- able in addition to molding technique, affecting the mechanical properties. In such studies, in addition to the method of molding, the type of the resin was also different in each group. Therefore, the results could not merely be attributed to the type of the molding process itself. 23-26 As a result, in the present study, denture base resins with the same composition were used (produced by Ivocolar Vivadent/Liechtenstein), which were processed by two different techniques. Therefore, comparisons were made only between the molding techniques and the effect of material type was eliminated. The denture base may fracture due to different rea- sons such as improper fitting, anatomical notches, and lack of adequate design. The fracture takes place due to flexure fatigue when the denture base is loaded and the maximum mechanical capacity of the 27 material is exceeded. The flexural strength is one of most important mechanical properties of resin materials and it has been reported that acrylic resins with incomplete polymerization have lower mechanical properties compared to those with complete 28-30 polymerization. Thus, by measuring the flexural strength, the quality of polymerization might be evaluated to some extent in addition to determination of 29 denture base resistance to force and trauma. Three-point flexural test, adopted by international standards for polymer materials, including ISO 1567:1999 Dentistry-Denture base polymers, is the most common technique of measuring flexural prop- 31 erties of denture bases. In this study, a loading force was applied to specimens at a crosshead speed 32 of 5 mm/min based on a study by Barbosa. Ac- cording to ISO 1565, flexural strength of acrylic resin, processed and cured with any method, should be 33 no less than 65 MPa. The results of this study demonstrated that the mean flexural strength of the two curing methods tested in the current work was ...

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... The loading that occurs on the denture in the mouth during the masticatory process is represented by this flexural strength. 11,15 Flexural strength is of particular importance among the different physical attributes that might be impacted by cleansers since denture base resins can fail clinically owing to flexural fatigue. 16,17 Several studies investigated the effect of chemical and herbal cleansers on the flexural strength of conventional heat cured denture base materials. ...
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