Purpose
To evaluate the color stability of CAD/CAM complete denture resins.
Materials and Methods
A total of 176 resin specimens were manufactured from conventional heat‐polymerizing (pink: CONHCP: n = 16; tooth‐shade: CONHCT: n = 16), CAD/CAM subtractively manufactured (pink: WIMP: n = 16, AVMP: n = 16, MEMP: n = 16, POMP: n = 16; tooth‐shade: AVMT: n = 16, MEMT: n = 16, POMT: n = 16), and additively manufactured (pink: NDRPP: n = 16; tooth‐shade: NDRPT: n = 16) denture resins; four different aging processes (thermal cycling, distilled water, red‐wine, and coffee) were used. A spectrophotometer evaluated the color change (ΔE) using two modes of measurements (specular component included (ΔESCI) and specular component excluded (ΔESCE)) recorded at baseline (T0) and at day#30 (T30). ANOVA and post hoc tests were used for statistical analysis (alpha = 0.05).
Results
Additively manufactured resins (NDRPP and NDRPT) demonstrated significant ΔE in comparison to the other groups in all aging media (p < 0.001). WIMP demonstrated higher ΔESCI in comparison to the other subtractively manufactured groups in distilled water (p < 0.001). In red‐wine, AVMT revealed significantly more ΔESCE than POMT (p = 0.039). In coffee, the ΔESCE was higher for CONHCT than MEMT (p = 0.026) and POMT (p = 0.011). Similarly, in coffee the ΔESCE for AVMT was higher than POMT (p = 0.030).
Conclusion
Additively manufactured denture resins demonstrated the maximum color change compared to conventional heat‐polymerized and CAD/CAM subtractively manufactured denture resins. Furthermore, CAD/CAM subtractively manufactured denture resins were not inferior to conventional resins in terms of color stability.