Comparative assessment of the roughness, hardness, and wear resistance of aesthetic bracket materials

Dental Materials

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 890-894

  Zinelis, Spiros ^a   Eliades, Theodore ^b   Eliades, George ^a   Makou, Margarita ^a   Silikas, Nikolaos ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brackets; Hardness; Roughness; Wear resistance

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; HARDNESS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; POLYMERS; PROFILOMETRY; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SINGLE CRYSTALS; STIFFNESS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VICKERS HARDNESS TESTING; WEAR RESISTANCE;

AESTHETIC MATERIALS; BRACKETS; POLYMERIC RAW MATERIALS; SINGLE-CRYSTAL CERAMICS;

DENTAL COMPOSITES;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; DELRIN; POLYCARBONATE; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; RESIN; ULTRA HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE; ULTRA-HIGH MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYETHYLENE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENTAL CARE; HARDNESS; HUMAN; MATERIALS TESTING; ORTHODONTIC DEVICE; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ALUMINUM OXIDE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENTAL MATERIALS; ESTHETICS, DENTAL; HARDNESS; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; ORTHODONTIC BRACKETS; POLYCARBOXYLATE CEMENT; POLYETHYLENES; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

EID: 23444437062     PISSN: 01095641     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dental.2005.03.007     Document Type: Article

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