Dental Materials
Volume 25, Issue 7 , Pages 899-908 , July 2009

Effect of delivering light in specific narrow bandwidths from 394 to 515nm on the micro-hardness of resin composites

Received 25 July 2008 ,Revised 10 October 2008 ,Accepted 19 January 2009.

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PII: S0109-5641(09)00109-2

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2009.01.098

Dental Materials
Volume 25, Issue 7 , Pages 899-908 , July 2009

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