Performance of two blue light-emitting-diode dental light curing units with distance and irradiation-time

Dental Materials

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 72-79

  Bennett, Adrian W ^a   Watts, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite shade; Dental material; Depth of cure; Exposure time; Light curing; Light emitting diode

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CRYSTALS; DOPING (ADDITIVES); GALLIUM NITRIDE; LIGHT EMITTING DIODES; LIGHT TRANSMISSION; MONOMERS; OPACITY; OPTICAL FILTERS; PHOTONS; POLYMERIZATION; QUARTZ; SPECTROPHOTOMETERS; STATISTICAL METHODS; TUNGSTEN; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

COMPOSITE SHADES; EXPOSURE TIME; LIGHT CURING;

DENTAL COMPOSITES;

HALOGEN; RESIN;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL TECHNOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; POWER SUPPLY; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPOSITE RESINS; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES; HALOGENS; LIGHT; RADIOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; TECHNOLOGY, DENTAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0347947230     PISSN: 01095641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0109-5641(03)00070-8     Document Type: Article

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