Dental Materials
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 649-654 , May 2009

Flowability of composites is no guarantee for contraction stress reduction

  • Milena Cadenaro

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Via Stuparich, 1, I-34125 Trieste, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +39 040 3992803; fax: +39 040 3992665.
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  • Giulio Marchesi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Via Stuparich, 1, I-34125 Trieste, Italy
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  • Francesca Antoniolli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Via Stuparich, 1, I-34125 Trieste, Italy
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  • Carel Davidson

      Affiliations

    • Department of Dental Materials Science, University of Amsterdam, Louwesweg 1 1066EA Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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  • Elettra De Stefano Dorigo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Via Stuparich, 1, I-34125 Trieste, Italy
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  • Lorenzo Breschi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Via Stuparich, 1, I-34125 Trieste, Italy
    • IGM-CNR, Unit of Bologna c/o IOR, Bologna, Italy

Received 6 March 2008 ,Accepted 25 November 2008.

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PII: S0109-5641(08)00281-9

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2008.11.010

Dental Materials
Volume 25, Issue 5 , Pages 649-654 , May 2009

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