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Residual mercury and amalgam quantity in conventional and wet techniques
Author(s) -
BERGDAHL GUNHILD
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
european journal of oral sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.802
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1600-0722
pISSN - 0909-8836
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0722.1973.tb00590.x
Subject(s) - mercury (programming language) , amalgam (chemistry) , residual , dentistry , significant difference , materials science , mathematics , chemistry , computer science , medicine , statistics , algorithm , electrode , programming language
— Twenty‐six amalgam restorations were performed using the conventional amalgam technique, and 26 using the wet amalgam technique on the same Class II cavity model. For the marginal proximal areas the mean difference in residual mercury content between the two techniques was 5.0% and for the remainder of the restoration 3.6%. The wet technique required, on an average, 58% more amalgam than did the conventional technique. The differences between the two techniques were statistically significant ( P <0.001).