Adhesive Bonding of Various Materials to Hard Tooth Tissues. I. Method of Determining Bond Strength

¹ American Dental Association, National Bureau of Standards, Washington, D.C.

A tensile adhesion test was developed to compare the degrees of bonding of materials and interfacial compounds to hard tooth tissues, such as dentin and enamel, and other substrates.

The analysis of variance by means of two-way tables eliminated from the error the systematic differences between specimens. The experimental error proved to be sufficiently small to make the apparatus suitable for discriminating between treatments to be described in subsequent parts of this series.