Dental Materials
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 576-584 , June 2006

The initiating radical yields and the efficiency of polymerization for various dental photoinitiators excited by different light curing units

  • Miguel G. Neumann

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 780, 13560-970 São Carlos SP, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55 16 3373 9940; fax: +55 16 3373 9952.
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  • Carla C. Schmitt

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 780, 13560-970 São Carlos SP, Brazil
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  • Giovana C. Ferreira

      Affiliations

    • Instituto de Química de São Carlos, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 780, 13560-970 São Carlos SP, Brazil
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  • Ivo C. Corrêa

      Affiliations

    • Faculdade de Odontologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Av Brigadeiro Trompowsky s/n, 21949-900 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil

Received 19 April 2005 ,Accepted 16 June 2005.

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PII: S0109-5641(05)00232-0

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2005.06.006

Dental Materials
Volume 22, Issue 6 , Pages 576-584 , June 2006

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