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Survey report: Curing lights
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Most GPs still rely on conventional halogen curing lights, but use of highspeed and LED units are growing - despite dentists' uncertainty about their safety, effectiveness.
While many in the dental profession predict a strong future for LED curing lights, and others like the speed of plasma arc lights and some of the highspeed halogen models now available, there seems to be general confusion surrounding just how effective and safe some of the relatively new devices are when it comes t...
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The right light: a review of orthodontic curing lights.
Orthodontic Products
; Bonding orthodontic attachments to enamel became available to the orthodontic community in the early 1960s. Visible-light-cured adhesives, now used by the vast majority of orthodontists, (1) were first described by Bassiouny in 1978. (2) Numerous advantages, including almost indefinite bracket
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Survey report: Curing lights
Dental Products Report
; Some newer lights boast great speed, and LED units have some nifty features, but most GPs still rely on conventional halogen curing lights. Several manufacturers have introduced new light-emitting diode (LED) curing lights this past year and nothing leads us to believe that 2003 will be any
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How to select a curing light for your practice
Dental Products Report Europe
; Speed, power and light source options are just some of the important considerations. Follow these guidelines to find the system that best suits your needs. By George Freedman, DDS Despite the advantages they offered dentists and patients in terms of improved esthetics over amalgam, the self-curing
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TERMINOLOGY, TECHNOLOGY, AND TROUBLESHOOTING: CURING LIGHTS
Dental Assistant
; Welcome to the lazy days of summer! I guess that is a saying that doesn't pertain to dental offices, because I don't seem to remember any summer lazy days in dentistry. Do you? Like busy dental office schedules filling so quickly, so go the number of new choices dentists have to make when it comes
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Reducing composite polymerization time
Dental Products Report Europe
; The advent of plasma arc lights marked the beginning of a new era in the field of light-- induced polymerization. For the first time, dental professionals were offered the opportunity to lightcure composite materials in less than 40 seconds. The new curing lights and the problems they caused gave
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