Dental Materials
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 359-365 , April 2006

Volume contraction in photocured dental resins: The shrinkage-conversion relationship revisited

  • Magali Dewaele

      Affiliations

    • Ecole de Médecine Dentaire et de Stomatologie, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium
    • Unité de Chime et de Physique des Hauts Polymères, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud, 1 - Bât. Boltzmann, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
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  • Delphine Truffier-Boutry

      Affiliations

    • Ecole de Médecine Dentaire et de Stomatologie, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium
    • Unité de Chime et de Physique des Hauts Polymères, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud, 1 - Bât. Boltzmann, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
    • ,
  • Jacques Devaux

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Chime et de Physique des Hauts Polymères, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Croix du Sud, 1 - Bât. Boltzmann, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve Belgium
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +32 10 47 35 56; fax: +32 10 45 15 93.
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  • Gaëtane Leloup

      Affiliations

    • Ecole de Médecine Dentaire et de Stomatologie, Université catholique de Louvain, Bruxelles, Belgium

Received 26 October 2004 ,Accepted 24 March 2005.

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PII: S0109-5641(05)00185-5

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2005.03.014

Dental Materials
Volume 22, Issue 4 , Pages 359-365 , April 2006

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