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Table 2.

Temperature rise values (mean ± SD) during photopolymerization under demineralized and undemineralized dentin disks (n = 10).

Groups	Groups definitions	Mean ± SD (°C)
Groups	Groups definitions	Undemineralized dentin	Demineralized dentin
1	ΔT Dentin (10 s light curing)	2.39 ± 0.60^aA	2.47 ± 0.40^aA
2	ΔT Dentin (40 s light curing)	6.26 ± 1.10^aB	7.02 ± 0.43^aB
3	ΔT LS System adhesive primer (10 s light curing)	2.14 ± 0.31^aA	2.34 ± 0.27^aA
4	ΔT LS System adhesive bond (10 s light curing)	1.83 ± 0.17^aA	1.98 ± 0.24^aA
5	ΔT Filtek LS with primer and adhesive (40 s light curing)	5.14 ± 0.62^aB	5.45 ± 0.49^aB
6	ΔT Filtek LS without primer and adhesive (40 s light curing)	5.58 ± 0.86^aB	6.25 ± 1.02^aB

Means followed by different letters show statistical differences: (α = 0.05).

Lower case letters: comparison of dentin discs at each procedure (row).

Capital letters: comparison of each photopolymerization step for each kind of dentin (column).

ΔT: temperature change.