Dental cutting with diamond burs: Heavy-handed or light-touch?

Journal of Prosthodontics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-9

  Siegel, Sharon Crane ^a   Von Fraunhofer, Joseph Anthony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND DENTAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutting efficiency; Dental burs; Handpiece loads

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL SURGERY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PARTICLE SIZE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DENTAL HIGH-SPEED TECHNIQUE; DENTAL INSTRUMENTS; DIAMOND; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMANS; PARTICLE SIZE; TOOTH PREPARATION;

EID: 0033094255     PISSN: 1059941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-849X.1999.tb00002.x     Document Type: Article

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