Surface Roughness Evaluation of Resin Composites after Finishing and Polishing Using 3D-Profilometry

Table 3

Mean (±s.d.) surface roughness (S_a in μm) of the tested composites with both finishing and polishing systems.

F/P system composite resin	E/P	SFD	ΔSa (95% CI)	p
Zirconfill®	0.126 ± 0.020^a	0.209 ± 0.029^a	0.083 (0.055–0.111)	<0.001
Filtek™ Supreme XTE	0.082 ± 0.057^b	0.187 ± 0.060^a,^b	0.104 (0.045–0.164)	0.002
Brilliant EverGlow™	0.049 ± 0.019^b	0.086 ± 0.021^c	0.036 (0.017–0.056)	0.001
Ceram.X® Duo	0.077 ± 0.016^b	0.121 ± 0.033^c,d	0.044 (0.017–0.070)	0.003
Harmonize™	0.070 ± 0.013^b	0.144 ± 0.040^b,d	0.074 (0.046–0.103)	<0.001
p	<0.001	<0.001

One-way Welch ANOVA. Within columns, similar superscript letters indicate groups that do not present statistically significant differences ().