Effects of Alendronate Sodium Content on the Interface Strengths of Composite Acrylic Bone Cement

Table 3

Shear strengths of the metal-bone cement interfaces (MPa) before immersion and 4 weeks after immersion in each group.

Group	Before immersion	4 weeks after immersion
G0	5.746 ± 0.7701	4.244 ± 0.0709	<0.05
G1	5.668 ± 0.0864	4.200 ± 0.0632	<0.05
G2	5.652 ± 0.0834	4.178 ± 0.0581	<0.05
G3	5.598 ± 0.1188	4.172 ± 0.0286	<0.05
G4	5.564 ± 0.1250	4.138 ± 0.0835	<0.05
G5	5.534 ± 0.1043	3.530 ± 0.0418^*	<0.05
	0.053	<0.05

Note: ^##indicates one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA); ^#indicates -test, < 0.05; ^*indicates Scheffé’s post hoc test, < 0.05 compared with G₀.