Fabrication of dental crowns by investment casting with rapid freeze prototyping generated ice patterns

Medical Device Materials - Proceedings of the Materials and Processes for Medical Devices Conference 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 438-443

  Liu, Qingbin ^a   Leu, Ming C ^a  

^a Architectural and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDERS; CASTING; CATALYSTS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTOUR MEASUREMENT; DENTISTRY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MEDICAL IMAGING; METAL CASTING; RESTORATION; SLURRIES;

DENTAL CROWN; LOST WAX; RAPID FREEZE PROTOTYPING; WATER DROPLETS;

DENTAL COMPOSITES;

EID: 2642533689     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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