Table 3 Microhardness (MH) and biaxial flexural strength (BFS) for the GIC-RMGICs after 1 and 30 days (mean and (SD), n = 8).

From: An in vitro assessment of the physical properties of manually- mixed and encapsulated glass-ionomer cements

Groups

MH [KHN] 1 day

MH[KHN] 30 days

BFS [MPa] 1 day

BFS[MPa] 30 days

F9E (C)

62.3 (4.4)*a

63.9 (4.5)*f

48.1 (6.2)hi

44.4 (5.9)*jk

F9E (H)

35.3 (2.5)b

39.3 (4.8)^g

40.7 (4.2)h

34.3 (4.9)^l

KFPA (C)

52.1 (2.9)*c

63.3 (4.1)*^f

70.0 (4.5)*

61.9 (2.1)^m

KFP (H)

44.4 (4.9)d

54.9 (2.9)^

42.9 (6.4)hi

60.7 (4.0)^m

F2LC (C)

49.4 (4.2)*cd

37.0 (2.6)*^g

135.8 (8.2)*

174.4 (7.0)*^

F2LC (H)

32.5 (2.9)be

28.0 (4.2)

122.8 (7.8)

91.5 (9.5)^

GC (C)

28.0 (2.6)e

40.6 (1.7)^g

27.2 (3.5)

38.0 (3.9)^jl

EF (C)

60.0 (3.0)a

61.1 (3.0)f

50.9 (3.7)i

50.7 (5.4)k

  1. (*) significant difference between capsulated and hand-mixed GICs. (^) significant difference within each group after short-term ageing in artificial saliva (t-test, p < 0.05). Similar letters in columns indicate no significant differences among GICs (Games-Howell test post-hoc tests, an alpha level of 0.05).