Influence of different luting concepts on long term retentive strength of zirconia crowns.

Purpose: To evaluate the retentive strength of a resin cement in combination with a conventional adhesive (Variolink II/Syntac Classic), two resin cements with self-etching adhesives (Panavia F 2.0/ED Primer, Multilink/Multilink Primer A/B), two self-adhering cements (RelyX Unicem Aplicap, Maxcem), and a resin-modified glass-ionomer cement (FujiCem) after cementation of zirconium-oxide ceramic crowns (LAVA) on extracted human teeth.

Methods: 160 extracted teeth (n=20) were prepared in a standardized manner (10 degrees, h=3 mm).