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Development of Proanthocyanidin-Loaded Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Improving Dental Adhesion
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Development of Proanthocyanidin-Loaded Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Improving Dental Adhesion

Ahmad Alkhazaleh, Sundes Elfagih, Leela Raghava Jaidev Chakka, Steven R Armstrong, Carissa L Comnick, Fang Qian, Aliasger K Salem, C Allan Guymon, Amanda J Haes and Cristina M P Vidal
Molecular pharmaceutics, Vol.19(12), pp.4675-4684
11/09/2022
DOI: 10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00728
PMCID: PMC9727728
PMID: 36349888
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https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.molpharmaceut.2c00728View
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Abstract

Dentin biomodification is a promising approach to enhance dental tissue biomechanics and biostability for restorative and reparative therapies. One of the most active dentin tissue biomodifiers is proanthocyanidin (PAC)-rich natural extracts, which are used in the dental bonding procedure in combination with resin-based adhesives (RBAs). This study aimed to investigate the use of mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) for the sustained delivery of PACs for dentin biomodification as a novel drug-delivery system for dental applications. The effects of the incorporation of MSN functionalized with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane (APTES) and loaded with PAC into an experimental RBA were assessed by characterizing the material mechanical properties. In addition, the immediate and long-term bonding performance of an experimental resin-based primer (RBP) containing MSN-APTES loaded with PAC was also evaluated. For that, different formulations of RBA and RBP were prepared containing 20% w/v MSN-APTES loaded with PAC before or after functionalization (MSN-PAC-APTES and MSN-APTES-PAC, respectively). The incorporation of MSN-APTES-PAC did not negatively impact the degree of conversion or the overall mechanical properties of the RBA. However, adding MSN-PAC-APTES resulted in inferior mechanical properties of the experimental RBA. In the adhesion studies, APTES-functionalized MSN was successfully added to an experimental RBP for drug-delivery purposes without compromising the bond strength to the dentin or the failure mode. Interestingly, the sequence of surface functionalization with APTES resulted in differences in the bonding performance, with better long-term results for RBP containing MSN loaded with PAC after functionalization.
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