Degradation effects of dietary solvents on microhardness and inorganic elements of computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing dental composites

Table 3 Comparison of mean KHN values between dietary solvents based on individual material^a

Materials	Differences between dietary solvents
FZ	Air (control),Distilled water > 0.02 N Lactic acid,50% Ethanol-water; 0.02 N Citric acid > 50% Ethanol-water
CM	Air (control),Distilled water,0.02 N Citric acid,0.02 N Lactic acid > 50% Ethanol-water
LU	NS
CS	Air (control),Distilled water,0.02 N Citric acid,0.02 N Lactic acid > 50% Ethanol-water
VE	Air (control),Distilled water,0.02 N Citric acid,0.02 N Lactic acid > 50% Ethanol-water

Abbreviations: CM: Shofu Ceramage; CS: Cerasmart; FZ: Filtek Z350 XT; LU: Lava Ultimate; VE: Vita Enamic; KHN: Knoop hardness; NS: no significance
^a Results of one-way analysis of variance and post hoc test (p < 0.05);
> indicates statistically significant differences in mean KHN values between conditioning in different dietary solvents for each material

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