Internal porosity of cast titanium removable partial dentures: Influence of sprue direction on porosity in circumferential clasps of a clinical framework design

Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 151-158

  Baltag, Ioana ^a   Watanabe, Kouichi ^a   Kusakari, Haruka ^a   Miyakawa, Osamu ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TITANIUM; WAX;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DENTURE; EDENTULOUSNESS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MACHINE; MANDIBLE; MOLAR TOOTH; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; PRESSURE CHAMBER; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STUDENT T TEST; TONGUE; X RAY FILM; CHEMISTRY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING;

DENTAL CASTING TECHNIQUE; DENTAL CLASPS; DENTURE DESIGN; DENTURE RETENTION; DENTURE, PARTIAL, REMOVABLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; MATERIALS TESTING; POROSITY; TITANIUM;

EID: 0036676377     PISSN: 00223913     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpr.2002.127400     Document Type: Article

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