Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 947-953 , October 2010

Contraction stress of low-shrinkage composite materials assessed with different testing systems

  • Giulio Marchesi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
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  • Lorenzo Breschi

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
    • IGM-CNR, Unit of Bologna c/o IOR, Bologna, Italy
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Piazza Ospedale, 1, I-34129 Trieste, Italy. Tel.: +39 040 3992192; fax: +39 040 3992665.
    • ,
  • Francesca Antoniolli

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
    • ,
  • Roberto Di Lenarda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy
    • ,
  • Jack Ferracane

      Affiliations

    • Department of Restorative Dentistry, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, USA
    • ,
  • Milena Cadenaro

      Affiliations

    • Department of Biomedicine, Unit of Dental Sciences and Biomaterials, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy

Received 23 May 2010 ,Accepted 25 May 2010.

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PII: S0109-5641(10)00141-7

doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2010.05.007

Dental Materials
Volume 26, Issue 10 , Pages 947-953 , October 2010

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