Research Article

Effect of Chemical Challenges on the Properties of Composite Resins

Table 3

Delta values of roughness surface (ΔR = initialR − finalR) after 180 days of degradation in different solutions.

Composite resinSolutions treatments
WaterAlcoholCitric acidPhosphoric acid

Z3500.013(0.008)Aa−0.047(0.007)ABb−0.044(0.011)Ab−0,026(0.006)Ab
HRI0.013(0.010)Aa−0.067(0.031)Bbc−0.090(0.025)Bc−0,045(0.011)Ab
BIO−0,012(0.007)Aa−0.055(0.014)Bb−0.046(0.040)Ab−0,035(0.015)Aab
VITTRA0.015(0.011)Aa−0.022(0.009)Ab−0.016(0.011)Aab−0,016(0.007)Aab
BULK0.006(0.001)Aa−0.048(0.032)Bb−0.045(0.041)Ab−0,047(0.016)Ab

Different capital letters (in column) and small letters (in line) are statistically different from each other for Tukey’s test .