Investigation of a new approach to measuring contact angles for hydrophilic impression materials

Journal of Prosthodontics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 84-92

  Kugel, Gerard ^a   Klettke, Thomas ^b   Goldberg, Jeffrey A ^a   Benchimol, Jaques ^a   Perry, Ronald D ^a   Sharma, Shradha ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF DENTAL MEDICINE   (United States)

^b 3M Deutschland GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contact angle measurement; Flow properties; Hydrophilicity; Impression materials

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND DENTAL MATERIALS; RESIN; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; IMPREGUM; TIME; WETTABILITY;

DENTAL IMPRESSION MATERIALS; RESINS, SYNTHETIC; TIME FACTORS; WATER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 33947227357     PISSN: 1059941X     EISSN: 1532849X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-849X.2007.00164.x     Document Type: Article

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