Journal of Dentistry
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 102-107 , February 2009

Translucency and masking ability of various opaque-shade composite resins

  • Sung Joon Kim

      Affiliations

    • Dental Research Institute and Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 28-2 Yungeon-Dong, Jongro-Gu, Seoul 110-749, Republic of Korea
    • Department of Dentistry, Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, College of Medicine, 505 Banpo-Dong, Seocho-Gu, Seoul 137-701, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Ho Hyun Son

      Affiliations

    • Dental Research Institute and Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 28-2 Yungeon-Dong, Jongro-Gu, Seoul 110-749, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Byung Hoon Cho

      Affiliations

    • Dental Research Institute and Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 28-2 Yungeon-Dong, Jongro-Gu, Seoul 110-749, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • In Bog Lee

      Affiliations

    • Dental Research Institute and Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 28-2 Yungeon-Dong, Jongro-Gu, Seoul 110-749, Republic of Korea
    • ,
  • Chung Moon Um

      Affiliations

    • Dental Research Institute and Department of Conservative Dentistry, School of Dentistry, Seoul National University, 28-2 Yungeon-Dong, Jongro-Gu, Seoul 110-749, Republic of Korea
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 2072 3019; fax: +82 2 2072 3817.

Received 3 July 2008 ,Revised 1 October 2008 ,Accepted 1 October 2008.

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PII: S0300-5712(08)00266-2

doi: 10.1016/j.jdent.2008.10.002

Journal of Dentistry
Volume 37, Issue 2 , Pages 102-107 , February 2009

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