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Dental Materials
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- 1What is done to the shape of the restoration to ensure amalgam stays in place in the tooth?The filling is undercut to allow the amalgam to be packed in and stay in due to mechanical force
- 2What is amalgam creep?When the amalgam filling changes shape due to small repetitive forces
- 3What is the process called to prepare the tooth for composite resin?acid etch
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- Flashcards on Dental Materials, created by aoifemcdougall on 23/04/2013.
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