Light-curing dental resin-based composites: How it works and how you can make it work
In: Frontiers in Dental Medicine ; volume 4 ; ISSN 2673-4915, 2023
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Aim Clinicians may become quite familiar with the rapid transformation of composite pastes to rigid solids, as a routine phenomenon in operative dentistry. But they may still lack scientific understanding of how and why this happens. Efforts to learn scientifically about the interaction between light beams and resin-composites can significantly promote effective clinical placement of restorations. Neglect of such study can result in practical procedures of light-curing that are inadequate or even seriously defective. Method This review addresses the underlying science and technology to elucidate how light curing works, for dental resin-based composites, including—but not limited to—bulk fill types. This involves questions concerning: (a) the particle-wave understanding of light; (b) how photons can penetrate sufficiently deeply into bulk fill composites; (c) the necessary technology of LED light-curing units (LCUs); (d) the criteria for absorption of photons by photo initiators to initiate free-radical addition polymerisation. Conclusions The implications for clinical practice are surveyed. These include design variables and selection criteria for LED-LCUs and guidelines on their use. This is to guide practitioners towards safe and effective light-curing procedures so that they can achieve optimal result for their patients.
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Light-curing dental resin-based composites: How it works and how you can make it work
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Watts, David C. |
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Zeitschrift: | Frontiers in Dental Medicine ; volume 4 ; ISSN 2673-4915, 2023 |
Veröffentlichung: | Frontiers Media SA, 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.3389/fdmed.2023.1108316 |
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