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Article: Research on orthodontics discussed by scientists at Yeditepe University.(Report)
- Article from:
- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- May 4, 2009
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"The aims of this study were to compare, in vitro, the shear bond strength (SBS) of stainless steel orthodontic brackets bonded to silver amalgam with the use of three different intermediate resins and two different adhesives, and to evaluate bond failure mode. Forty-five amalgam specimens were divided into three equal groups," scientists in Turkey report (see also Orthodontics).
"In groups 1 and 2, the brackets were bonded with Unite (3M Unitek) using Reliance Metal Primer (RMP; Reliance Orthodontic Products) and Power Bond (TM) OLC (PB OLC; Ortho Organizers Inc.) as intermediate resins, respectively. In group 3, Resinomer and One-Step Plus (OS+; Bisco Inc.) ...
<0.001). There were no statistically significant differences in mean SBS between the amalgam bonding groups (P>