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| | Refrigeration and tensile bond strength |
 | | After the tensile bond strength tests, the fractured surfaces of the specimens were visually examined with a stereomicroscope (Olympus Corp., Tokyo, Japan) at X20 to classify the type of failure that occurred during the debonding procedure. |
 | | Another theoretical disadvantage of refrigeration, the decrease in bond strength due to the adverse effect of refrigeration upon the physical properties of the adhesive materials, seems not to have occurred, because little or no effect could be detected in the bond strength under refrigerated conditions. |
 | | In the shear bond tests, there is a tendency for cohesive failures to occur in dentin due, in part, to the mechanism of the test (18). |
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