Polymerization shrinkage in contemporary resin-based dental composites: A Review Article

Document Type : Review Articles

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Restorative and Dental Materials Research Department, National Research Centre (NRC),Cairo, Egypt

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Polymerization shrinkage of the resin-based dental composite restorations has crucial implications on the clinical performance and durability of the resin composite restoration. Polymerization shrinkage is an inherent property of the photo-cured methacrylate composite Thus, contemporary resin-based dental composites try to achieve novel chemistry in a commercial resin composite to limit the polymerization shrinkage to minimum by alteration of resin part and addition of inorganic fillers.

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