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The light-curing mania.

Gordon J Christensen
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In the approximately 25 years that dental restorative resins have been cured by light, there has been constant evolution of and improvement in the curing devices and the resins they cure. During the past decade, curing lights have become very effective. Dentists who have functional halogen, fast halogen or PAC lights may wish to compare their current lights with the new generation of LED lights that are dominating the commercial dental advertising at this time. If the new LED lights offer more than the current light they are using, they might consider changing to an LED. If their current light offers about the same characteristics as the LED light being considered, I do not recommend changing. I anticipate that continued upgrading and improvement in LED lights eventually will make this concept the most used method for curing restorative resin.

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Gordon J Christensen. 2004. The light-curing mania.. https://doi.org/10.14219/jada.archive.2004.0211

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