Research Article
Setting Reaction of Dental Resin-Modified Glass Ionomer Restoratives as a Function of Curing Depth and Postirradiation Time
Table 2
Degree of conversion (DC) (%) of materials at different depths and postirradiation times (mean and SD in parentheses).
| Material | Depth | 10 min | 1 day | 7 days |
| FL | 0 mm | 46.0 (6.1) a | 47.2 (4.8) a | 47.8 (6.0) a | 1 mm | 44.5 (5.6) a | 46.1 (3.0) a | 45.2 (5.8) a | 2 mm | 42.3 (4.1) ab | 41.9 (5.1) ab | 44.8 (4.4) a | 4 mm | 34.6 (3.8) c | 36.7 (3.9) bc | 37.3 (4.2) bc |
| FF | 0 mm | 56.5 (4.0) a | 58.6 (4.1) a | 58.5 (5.7) a | 1 mm | 53.4 (6.7) a | 52.7 (3.9) a | 54.9 (2.6) a | 2 mm | 52.9 (6.8) a | 54.8 (4.4) a | 52.6 (4.4) a | 4 mm | 37.5 (3.7) b | 39.0 (3.4) b | 41.2 (4.6) b |
| VT | 0 mm | 38.0 (4.3) a | 42.5 (6.8) a | 40.1 (5.0) a | 1 mm | 37.8 (3.7) a | 39.9 (6.7) a | 41.6 (2.8) a | 2 mm | 35.6 (5.9) ab | 37.4 (3.2) a | 38.5 (3.6) a | 4 mm | 29.6 (5.1) bc | 28.2 (4.5) c | 26.5 (4.3) c |
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Within the same material, means with same lowercase letters indicate no statistically significant difference between the groups ( > 0.05).
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