Dental Materials
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 60-70 , January 2007

Modeling the investment casting of a titanium crown

  • R.C. Atwood

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK
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  • P.D. Lee

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials, Imperial College London, London, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 207 594 6801; fax: +44 207 594 6758.
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  • R.V. Curtis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Biomaterials, The Guy's, King's and St. Thomas's Dental Institute, Kings College London, London, UK
  • ,
  • D.M. Maijer

      Affiliations

    • Department of Materials Engineering, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Received 1 September 2005 ,Revised 1 December 2005 ,Accepted 1 December 2005.

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PII: S0109-5641(05)00360-X

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2005.12.001

Dental Materials
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 60-70 , January 2007