Assessment of Wettability and Contact Angle of Bonding Agent with Enamel Surface Etched by Five Commercially Available Etchants: An In Vitro Study

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_left" rowspan="2">Etchants included in study</td><td class="align_center" colspan="2">Contact angle</td></tr><tr class="thead"><td class="align_center">Mean</td><td class="align_center">Standard deviation</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="3"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">DPI</td><td class="align_center">50.0500</td><td class="align_center">9.6127</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">D-tech</td><td class="align_center">66.7850</td><td class="align_center">12.72897</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Prime</td><td class="align_center">52.0625</td><td class="align_center">21.42078</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Anabond eazetch</td><td class="align_center">65.3250</td><td class="align_center">11.29694</td></tr><tr><td class="align_left">Ivoclar</td><td class="align_center">66.4225</td><td class="align_center">28.85353</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="3"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr></table>

<div>Mean and standard deviation of the contact angle for each group. DPI has the least contact angle followed by Prime, while Ivoclar had the highest.</div>

International Journal of Dentistry

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Table 1: Assessment of Wettability and Contact Angle of Bonding Agent with Enamel Surface Etched by Five Commercially Available Etchants: An In Vitro Study 

Table 1 | Assessment of Wettability and Contact Angle of Bonding Agent with Enamel Surface Etched by Five Commercially Available Etchants: An In Vitro Study 