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Applied Adhesion Science

Table 6 Incidence of failure types (%) after flexural bond strength test

From: The effect of a bonding agent and thermo-mechanical cycling on the bond strength of a glass-ceramic to gold and cobalt-chromium alloys

Experimental groups (n = 64)

Failure types

Adhesive

Mixed

G1–Gold/Bonding agent

12.5 (2)

87.5 (14)

G2–Gold/ No bonding agent

25 (4)

75 (12)

G3–Co-Cr/Bonding agent

6.25 (1)

93.75 (15)

G4–Co-Cr /No bonding agent

25 (4)

75 (12)

  1. *Adhesive–along the interfacial region between the opaque ceramic and the metal; Mixed–mixture of adhesive failure between the opaque ceramic and the metal with cohesive fracture of the ceramic.
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