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Enhanced Hydrolytic Stability of Dental Composites by Use of Fluoroalkyltrimethoxysilanes

¹ Department of Operative Dentistry and Endodontics and
² Department of Dental Materials, Kanagawa Dental College, 82 Inaoka-cho, Yokosuka, Kanagawa 238-8580, Japan; and
³ Department of Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Science University of Tokyo, 1-3 Kagurazaka, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8601, Japan;

* corresponding author, niheitom{at}kdcnet.ac.jp

The hydrolytic stability of a group of experimental composite materials was evaluated. Seven distinct composites were formed by the mixing of a resin monomer mixture with silica filler that had been pre-treated with one of 7 different ethanol solutions. In one case, the filler was treated with an ethanol solution that contained only 3-methacryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane. In 5 cases, it was treated with solution containing a mixture of 3-methacryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane and one of the following hydrophobic fluoroalkyltrimethoxysilanes: trifluoropropyl-, nonafluorohexyl-, tridecafluorooctyl-, heptadecafluorodecyl-, and henicosafluorododecyl-trimethoxysilane. The tensile strength, after being immersed in water for 1800 days, of 2 of the experimental composites, whose pre-treatment regimen had included a fluoroalkyltrimethoxysilane, was significantly higher than that of the composite whose pre-treatment regimen had not included a fluoroalkyltrimethoxysilane. Moreover, there was no significant difference between the tensile strength of fresh samples of these 2 composites and the tensile strength of identically produced samples that had remained under water for 1800 days or that had been subjected to 30,000 cycles of thermal stress.

KEY WORDS: 3-methacryloyloxypropyltrimethoxysilane • fluoroalkylsilane • resin composite • tensile strength • hydrolytic stability