Setting Reaction of Dental Resin-Modified Glass Ionomer Restoratives as a Function of Curing Depth and Postirradiation Time

Table 3

Extent of acid-base reaction (EAB) of materials at different depths and postirradiation times (mean and SD in parentheses).

Material	Depth	10 min	1 day	7 days
FL	0 mm	2.0 (0.2) a	3.8 (0.5) b	5.7 (0.4) c
	1 mm	2.4 (0.3) a	4.1 (0.7) b	5.8 (0.8) c
	2 mm	2.6 (0.5) a	3.8 (0.6) b	5.5 (0.4) c
	4 mm	2.6 (0.4) a	3.7 (0.3) b	5.6 (0.5) c
FF	0 mm	6.8 (0.6) a	11.2 (1.1) b	12.5 (1.6) b
	1 mm	6.3 (0.9) a	17.1 (1.3) c	17.9 (2.4) c
	2 mm	7.4 (1.1) a	16.9 (1.9) c	18.0 (2.3) c
	4 mm	7.7 (1.4) a	23.1 (3.8) d	22.2 (3.5) d
VT	0 mm	1.3 (0.2) a	2.6 (0.4) b	4.1 (0.5) ce
	1 mm	1.0 (0.1) a	2.9 (0.4) b	4.5 (0.4) e
	2 mm	1.1 (0.2) a	3.7 (0.5) c	4.6 (0.7) e
	4 mm	1.3 (0.2) a	5.5 (0.9) d	6.4 (0.8) f

Within the same material, means with same lowercase letters indicate no statistically significant difference between the groups ( > 0.05).