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DENTAL MATERIALS JOURNAL
Volume 31, Issue 4, Pages 656-661Publisher
JAPANESE SOC DENTAL MATERIALS DEVICES
DOI: 10.4012/dmj.2012-009
Keywords
LED; Polymerization; Coinitiator; Composite resin
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The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of dual-peak LED on the polymerization of coinitiator-containing composite resins. For this, microhardness, degree of conversion (DC), and polymerization shrinkage were evaluated. Specimens (coinitiator-containing: Aelite LS Posterior, Tetric EvoCeram, and Vit-l-escence; only camphorquinone-containng: Filtek Z350 and Grandio) were light cured using a quartz-tungsten-halogen (QTH: OP), a single-peak light-emitting diode (LED) (L.E.Demetron: DM), and a dual-peak LED (G-light: GL), respectively. All specimens light cured using GL showed the highest microhardness both on the top and bottom surfaces compared with the values obtained using the rest light-curing units (LCUs). DC had no consistent trend correspond to the LCU, but rather product specific. OP yielded the lowest polymerization shrinkage on the specimens. The coinitiator-containing composite resins achieved the highest microhardness by the dual-peak LED (GL). However, the influence of GL on DC and polymerization shrinkage of the specimens was not consistent.
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