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ArticleFrontiers in dental medicine2026

Effect of polydopamine on bonding characteristics and color stability of blood contaminated Biodentine to composite.

Ihtisam Alam, Aravind R Kudva, S Vidhyadhara Shetty, Jayprakash Kukkila

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Ihtisam AlamDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College,Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
Aravind R KudvaDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College,Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
S Vidhyadhara ShettyDepartment of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College,Yenepoya (Deemed to be University), Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.
Jayprakash KukkilaDepartment of Dental Materials, Biomaterials and Research Center, Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) Dental College, Mangaluru, Karnataka, India.

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Abstract

Introduction: Calcium silicate cements such as Biodentine are frequently placed in a blood-contaminated field during vital pulp therapy and must subsequently be bonded to an overlying resin composite. Polydopamine (PDA) improves the wettability and bond strength of mineral trioxide aggregate to resin composite, but its effect on blood-contaminated Biodentine is unknown. Aim: To determine the effect of PDA pretreatment on the shear bond strength (SBS), failure mode and colour change ( Materials and methods: Seventy-six standardised Biodentine specimens (5 mm diameter × 3 mm) were prepared with blood contamination (present/absent) and PDA pretreatment (present/absent) as the two factors ( Results: Blood contamination significantly reduced SBS [F(1,72) = 18.86, Conclusions: Within the limitations of this

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biodentineblood contaminationcolour stabilitypolydopamineresin compositeshear bond strength

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PMCPMC13612303

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