%0 Journal Article %T Fracture resistance of teeth restored with different resin-based restorative systems %A Kikuti %A Willian Yoshio %A Chaves %A Fernanda Oliveira %A Di Hip¨®lito %A Vinicius %A Rodrigues %A Fl¨˘via Pires %A D'Alpino %A Paulo Henrique Perlatti %J Brazilian Oral Research %D 2012 %I Sociedade Brasileira de Pesquisa Odontol¨®gica %R 10.1590/S1806-83242012005000004 %X the aim of the present study was to evaluate the fracture resistance of teeth restored with resin composite. forty-eight maxillary premolar teeth were chosen and randomly divided to six groups: g1 (control): sound teeth; g2: mod preparation, unrestored; g3: mod + adper single bond 2/p60; g4: mod + adper easy one/p60; g5: mod + p90 restorative system; g6: mod + adper easy one/p90 bond/p90. specimens were subjected to compressive axial loading (0.5 mm/min). flexural strength and the modulus of elasticity were also tested (n = 7). the only statistical equivalence with sound teeth was noted for g3 (p < 0.05). flexural strength and the modulus of elasticity varied among the composites tested (n = 10). the reestablishment of the resistance to fracture in premolars subjected to class ii mod preparations is restorative-system-dependent. the silorane restorative system is not able to recover the resistance to fracture. %K compressive strength %K dentin-bonding agents %K dental restoration %K permanent. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1806-83242012000300015&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en