Asm. Gilmour et A. Ali, CLINICAL-PERFORMANCE OF RESIN-RETAINED FIXED PARTIAL DENTURES BONDED WITH A CHEMICALLY ACTIVE LUTING CEMENT, The Journal of prosthetic dentistry, 73(6), 1995, pp. 569-573
A clinical study was undertaken to review resin-retained fixed partial
dentures bonded with a chemically active luting cement during a 4-yea
r period. One hundred thirty-seven fixed partial dentures were reviewe
d of which five had failed because of a nonbonding failure (esthetics,
trauma, fracture) and 47 (36%) had failed after a bonding failure, of
which 72% were rebonded. The mean time of failure was 10.9 months (SD
9.8). The failure rate appeared to be affected by position, use of a
rubber dam, and the fixed partial denture design, although no one fact
or reached conventional statistical significance.