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184. Richard Price DMD, PhD - The Danger of Under-curing Composite

Dental Digest Podcast with Dr. Melissa Seibert

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The Pros and Cons of Slow Start Polymerization

There is this notion out there that you need to use slow start or a pulse type curing technique because perhaps I was introducing too much energy. And the clinical studies that have been done comparing pulse delay and ramp curing versus continuous curing show no benefit at all of one technique over the other. So we think maybe one or two second curing times may not be a good idea. Slow curing may be better. Now I say like 10 second or 20 second curing, may be better because it may allow better cross linking to occur.

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