OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that bonding with a blue light-emitting diode (LED) curing unit produces no more failures in adhesive-precoated (APC) orthodontic brackets than bonding carried out by a conventional halogen lamp. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty-five patients were selected for this randomized clinical trial, in which a total of 1152 stainless steel APC brackets were employed. In or...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the degree of conversion (DC) of two lingual retainer adhesives, Transbond Lingual Retainer (TLR) and Light Cure Retainer (LCR), cured with a fast halogen light, a plasma arc light and a light-emitting diode (LED) at various curing times. A conventional halogen light served as the control. One hundred adhesive samples (five per group) were cured for 5, 10 o...

A method is proposed for the construction of a square pixel complex spatial light modulator (SLM) from a commercial oblong full-high-definition (full-HD) amplitude SLM using an anamorphic optical filter. In the proposed scheme, one half-band of the optical Fourier transform of the amplitude-only spatial light field is rejected in the optical Fourier plane and the other half-band is reformatted ...

Accelerated curing results, obtained after only 24 hours, are used to predict the 28 day strength of concrete. Various accelerated curing methods are available. Two of these methods are compared in relation to the accuracy of their predictions and the stability of the relationship between their 24 hour and 28 day concrete strength. The results suggest that Warm Water accelerated curing is prefe...

This study proposed a method of energy anomaly detection by using data integration and forecasting techniques to improve energy efficiency in tire curing. Proposed method integrates energy consumption with different factors (environments, equipments, operators, tire blanks and tire types). Artificial neural network model and Support Vector Machine model were used to forecast normal interval for...

Cement stabilization has been widely used for improving the strength and stiffness of soft clayey soils. Cement treated soil specimens used to investigate the stress-strain behaviour in the laboratory study are usually cured for 7 days. This paper examines the effects of curing time on the strength and stress strain behaviour of cement treated marine clay under triaxial loading condition. Labor...

AIMS The aim of this in vitro study was to evaluate the influence of light curing modes and curing time on the microhardness of a hybrid composite resin. METHODS AND MATERIALS Forty-five Z250 composite resin specimens (3M-ESPE Dental Products, St. Paul, MN, USA) were randomly divided into nine groups (n=5): three polymerization modes (conventional-550 mW/cm2; light-emitting diodes (LED)-360 m...

Purpose: This study evaluated the effect of a high-power solid-state light emitting diode (LED) curing unit on the dentin bond strength of a composite resin with self-etching primer adhesives by means of microtensile bond test. Materials and Methods: The flat dentin surfaces of the extracted human molars were prepared. Each surface was treated with either two self-etching adhesive systems (Clea...

A prospective clinical trial was carried out to compare argon laser-curing of a traditional light-activated composite resin with conventional visible light-curing in terms of bond failure rate and incidence of enamel decalcification. Forty-five patients with a total of 742 metal brackets bonded to the upper and/or lower teeth in a modified split-mouth design participated in the study. The adhes...