Research Article

The Effect of Light Exposure on Water Sorption and Solubility of Self-Adhesive Resin Cements

Table 1

The manufactures’ compositions and lot number of the dual-cured resin cements used in this investigation.

Resin cement
(Manufacturer)
Composition
(Lot number)

G-Cem
(GC Corp., Tokyo, Japan)
4-META, UDMA, fluoro-alumino-silicate glass, pigment, DMA, distilled water, phosphoric ester monomer, initiator, and camphorquinone (0702231).
MaxCem
(Kerr Corp., Orange, CA, USA)
Multifunctional DMAs, GPDM, proprietary Redox initiators and photo-initiators, barium, fluoroaluminosilicate, and fumed silica (66 wt.%) (2741040).
Panavia F 2.0
(Kuraray Medical Inc., Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan)
Paste A: 10-MDP, hydrophobic and hydrophilic DMA, silanized silica filler, silanated colloidal silica, dl-camphorquinone, initiators, and others (00249A).
Paste B: hydrophobic and hydrophilic DMA, sodium fluoride, silanated barium glass filler, initiators, accelerators, and pigments (00026B).
RelyX Unicem (capsules)
(3M ESPE, Seefeld, Germany)
Powder: silanized glass powder (85–95% wt.), silane treated silica (5–10% wt.), substituted pyrimidine (1–5% wt.), calcium hydroxide (<3% wt.), and sodium persulfate (<1% wt.).
Liquid: dimethacrylate-ester of phosphoric acid (40–50% wt.), TEGDMA (25–35% wt.), and substituted dimethacrylate (20–30% wt.) (279915).
SeT
(SDI, Bayswater, VIC, Australia)
UDMA; fluoroaluminosilicate glass (60–70 wt.%); camphorquinone (<1 wt.%), and acidic monomer (<20 wt.%) (50711272).

Abbreviations: 10-MDP: 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate; DMA: dimethacrylates; TEGDMA: triethylene glycol dimethacrylate; GPDM: glycerol dimethacrylate dihydrogen phosphate; Bis-GMA: bisphenol-A-diglycidyl ether dimethacrylate; UDMA: urethane dimethacrylate; 4-META: 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride.