Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 8 , Pages 1043-1049 , August 2008

Minimal exposure time of different LED-curing devices

  • Anke Schattenberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Operative Dentistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Augustusplatz 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +49 6131 177247; fax: +49 6131 173406.
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  • Dana Lichtenberg

      Affiliations

    • Department of Operative Dentistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Augustusplatz 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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  • Elmar Stender

      Affiliations

    • Institute for Dental Material Sciences and Technology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
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  • Brita Willershausen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Operative Dentistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Augustusplatz 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany
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  • Claus-Peter Ernst

      Affiliations

    • Department of Operative Dentistry, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Augustusplatz 2, 55131 Mainz, Germany

Received 1 March 2007 ,Accepted 4 December 2007.

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PII: S0109-5641(07)00286-2

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2007.12.001

Dental Materials
Volume 24, Issue 8 , Pages 1043-1049 , August 2008

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