Advanced zinc-doped adhesives for high performance at the resin-carious dentin interface Toledano Pérez, Manuel Osorio Ruiz, Raquel Osorio Ruiz, María Estrella García-Godoy, Franklin Toledano Osorio, Manuel Sánchez Aguilera, Fátima Caries Dentin Remineralization Load cycling Zn-doped adhesives Raman The purpose of this study was to evaluate the remineralization ability of an etch-and-rinse Zn-doped resin applied on caries-affected dentin (CAD). CAD surfaces were subjected to: i) 37% phosphoric acid (PA) or ii) 0.5 M ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA). 10 wt% ZnO nanoparticles or 2 wt% ZnCl2 were added into the adhesive Single Bond (SB), to create the following groups: PA+SB, PA+SB-ZnO, PA+SB-ZnCl2, EDTA+SB, EDTA+SB-ZnO, EDTA+SB-ZnCl2. Bonded interfaces were submitted to mechanical loading or stored during 24 h. Remineralization of the bonded interfaces was studied by AFM nano-indentation (hardness and Young’s modulus), Raman spectroscopy [mapping with principal component analysis (PCA), and hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA)] and Masson's trichrome staining technique. Dentin samples treated with PA+SB-ZnO attained the highest values of nano-mechanical properties. Load cycling increased both mineralization and crystallographic maturity at the interface; this effect was specially noticed when using ZnCl2-doped resin in EDTA-treated carious dentin. Crosslinking attained higher frequencies indicating better conformation and organization of collagen in specimens treated with PA+SB-ZnO, after load cycling. Trichrome staining technique depicted a deeper demineralized dentin fringe that became reduced after loading, and it was not observable in EDTA+SB groups. Multivariate analysis confirmed de homogenizing effect of load cycling in the percentage of variances, traces of centroids and distribution of clusters, especially in specimens treated with EDTA+SB-ZnCl2. 2017-06-08T06:29:09Z 2017-06-08T06:29:09Z 2016-05-14 info:eu-repo/semantics/preprint Toledano Pérez, M.; et al. Advanced zinc-doped adhesives for high performance at the resin-carious dentin interface. Journal of the Mechanical Behavior Biomedical Materials, 62: 247-267 (2016). [http://hdl.handle.net/10481/46728] 1751-6161 http://hdl.handle.net/10481/46728 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2016.05.013 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 License Elsevier