Applied photochemistry in dental science

Abstract

This paper presents a short review of the most important problems involved in the photocuring of dental polymer materials, such as a choice of photoinitiating system (mainly based on camphorquinone-amines), kinetics of polymer conversion, depth of curing, shrinkage etc., and also discusses problems with damage of photocured surfaces by chemical, biological, and mechanical degradation. © 1993 Indian Academy of Sciences.