Research Article

Effect of the Combination of Restorative Material and the Etching Protocol in Enamel Microleakage in Class II Cavities after Thermocycling

Table 2

Mean values and standard deviations of the percentage of microleakage.

GroupsEtching mode
TESE

Z35019.96 (22.74)28.34 (11.61)
19.52 (12.11)21.84 (10.79)
FBP21.32 (14.78)28.80 (21.01)
32.74 (23.20)28.74 (21.92)

Abbreviations: TE: total etching; SE: self-etching; Z350: Filtek Z350 XT; ZF: Filtek Z350 XT Flowable; FBP: Bulk Fill Posterior; FBF: Filtek Bulk Fill Flow.