Comparing cutting efficiencies of diamond burs using a high-speed electric handpiece

General Dentistry

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 254-257

  Chung, Evelyn M ^a   Sung, Eric C ^a   Wu, Ben ^b   Caputo, Angelo A ^a  

^a UCLA SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAMOND;

ARTICLE; CERAMICS; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENTAL EQUIPMENT; DENTAL SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; RECYCLING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE; TIME; TORQUE;

CERAMICS; DENTAL HIGH-SPEED EQUIPMENT; DIAMOND; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT REUSE; HUMANS; MATERIALS TESTING; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, SCANNING; STERILIZATION; STRESS, MECHANICAL; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS; TOOTH PREPARATION; TORQUE;

EID: 33748651466     PISSN: 03636771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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