. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 1.

Published in final edited form as: Acta Biomater. 2009 Nov 12;6(6):2053–2059. doi: 10.1016/j.actbio.2009.11.006

Table 1.

Final conversion (%), temperature maximum (°C) and relative light transmission at P₁ (point at which the light curing unit reached its maximum intensity), P₂ (maximum light transmission through the sample) and P₃ (final light transmission through the sample). t₁= time at P1 and t₂= time at P₂

Material/Condition	Final Conversion	Temperature Maximum, °C	Optical Properties
Material/Condition	Final Conversion	Temperature Maximum, °C	P₁ – P₂ / t₁ – t₂	P₃ – P₁
High Light Intensity (500 mW/cm²)
High fill/low CQ	0.582 ± 0.011^a	32.2 ± 0.2^a	0.011 ± 0.001^a	0.145 ± 0.011^a
High fill/low CQ^*	0.600 ± 0.001^a	31.0 ± 0.1^a	0.011 ± 0.001^a	0.160 ± 0.004^a
High fill/high CQ	0.667 ± 0.008^b	37.7 ± 1.3^b	0.032 ± 0.002^b	0.217 ± 0.012^b
Low fill/low CQ	0.640 ± 0.006^c	44.5 ± 1.6^c	0.019 ± 0.001^c	0.239 ± 0.002^b
Low fill/ high CQ	0.716 ± 0.009^d	46.8 ± 2.6^c,d	0.029 ± 0.001^b	0.273 ± 0.009^c
No fill/low CQ	0.595 ± 0.004^a	49.5 ± 5.2^c,d	-	-
No fill/high CQ	0.678 ± 0.004^b	52.7 ± 1.1^d	-	-

Low Light Intensity (50 mW/cm²)
High fill/low CQ	0.468 ± 0.016^e	29.3 ± 0.9^a
Low fill/high CQ	0.585 ± 0.007^a	35.5 ± 2.2^a,b
No fill/high CQ	0.554 ± 0.004^f	40.0 ± 0.9^b

Unless otherwise specified, specimens dimensions: 12 mm diameter × 1.6 mm thick

Specimen dimension: 12 mm diameter × 0.8 mm thick

Within each column, letters designate groupings that are statistically different (ANOVA/Tukey; P < 0.05)