Abstract
The purpose of the study was to determine the exposure times needed to harden a light-activated composite cement through various thicknesses of porcelain. A negative exponential model was developed with which the relative hardness of a composite could be predicted from the product of the exposure time and the square root of the light intensity at 470 nm. Hardness data obtained by varying the exposure time and porcelain thickness were found to fit this model. A relationship was derived to predict the required exposure time, t, of a composite under porcelain with a transmission coefficient, Tc, and a thickness, l:t = toTc-1/2, where to is the exposure time of the composite alone.
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