Effect of plasma treatment of acrylic denture teeth and thermocycling on the bonding strength to heat cured acrylic denture base material

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Background: Acrylic resin polymer s used in prosthodontic treatment as a denture base material for several decades.

Separation and debonding of artificial teeth from denture bases present a laboratory and clinical problem affect patient and dentist.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of oxygen plasma and argon plasma treatment of acrylic teeth and thermocycling on bonding strength to hot cured acrylic resin denture base material.

Materials and Methods: Sixty denture teeth (right maxillary central incisor) are selected.

The denture teeth are waxed onto the beveled surface of rectangular wax block according to Japanese standard for artificial teeth.

The control group consisted of 20 denture teeth specimen without any treatment.

The oxygen plasma group consisted of 20 denture teeth specimen treated with oxygen plasma for two minutes exposure time at plasma apparatus.

The argon plasma group consisted of 20 denture teeth treated with argon plasma for two minuets exposure time.

All the specimens are undergone flasking and wax elimination procedure in the conventional way.

All specimens stored in distilled water for 7 days at 37°C, then half of the specimens of all groups undergoes thermocycling between 5°C - 55°C in 60 seconds cycles for three days and tested for shear bond strength using universal testing machine the data was collected and analyzed statistically using analysis of variance and independent sample t-test.

Results: The plasma treated groups showed the higher mean force required to fracture the acrylic teeth from their heat cured acrylic resin denture bases, as compared to control group, and the oxygen plasma treatment group showed higher shear bond value than the argon plasma treatment.

The thermocycling had a deleterious effect on bonding strength for control group while the plasma treated group showed an increase in bond strength following thermocycling.

Conclusion: Plasma treatment method was an effective approach for increasing the shear bond strength as a result of surface oxidation and chemical etching effect of oxygen plasma and micromechanical interlocking effect of argon plasma.