Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
28th BaSS Congress, Budva, Karadağ, 25 - 27 Nisan 2024, ss.70
Aim: This study aims to analyze the changes in the surface roughness and microhardness of two different hybrid and one leucite-reinforced CAD/CAM blocks after being immersed in two energy drinks and distilled water as a control group.
Material and Methods: The study utilized Cerasmart, Lava Ultimate, and G-Ceram blocks. From these blocks, a total of 108 rectangular-shaped samples were obtained. And the samples were randomly divided into three subgroups according to the energy drink: Monster energy drink, Red Bull energy drink and distilled water (n=12). The initial surface roughness and microhardness of all samples were measured. When measuring surface roughness, a profilometer was used, while a Vickers microhardness measuring device was used for microhardness measurements. After being stored in energy drinks for a month, had their surface roughness and microhardness measurements repeated. Data were evaluated using One-Way ANOVA in IBM SPSS with a significance level of 0.05.
Results: According to the data, Redbull energy drink caused the highest surface roughness among all the materials tested, which was then followed by a decrease in microhardness (p≤0.05). A similar effect was observed with Monster energy drink. After one month of immersion, the G-Ceram block kept in distilled water had the highest microhardness value of 660.72 and the lowest surface roughness of 0.2356.
Conclusions: Frequent intake of energy drinks can have a substantial impact on the surface properties of CAD/CAM blocks. It is noteworthy that G-Ceram block, a material that is leucite-reinforced ceramic, exhibits the highest level of resistance to these effects.