Table 1. Number* of studies excluded according to the ISO recommendations by property.
ISO recommendations | Mechanical and optical properties | ||||
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Compressive strength | Flexural strength | Color | Opacity | Radiopacity | |
Specimens´ dimension | 27 | 23 | 5 | 5 | |
Equipment test speed | 34 | 23 | |||
Storage time | 4 | 13 | |||
Storage temperature | 5 | ||||
Focus-film distance | 1 |
*The total number of papers presented in the table is higher than 96 that were excluded as some papers did not follow more than one recommendation