Effectiveness of composite cure with pulse activation and soft-start polymerization

Operative Dentistry

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 44-49

  Yap, A U J ^a,b   Soh, M S ^a,b   Siow, K S ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYMER; RESIN; SILICON DIOXIDE; Z100 COMPOSITE RESIN; ZIRCONIUM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL TECHNOLOGY; HARDNESS; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPOSITE RESINS; HARDNESS; HARDNESS TESTS; LIGHT; POLYMERS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TECHNOLOGY, DENTAL; ZIRCONIUM;

EID: 0036357926     PISSN: 03617734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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