SIQUEIRA, Fabiana Suelen Figueredo de et al. Microhardness evaluations of composite resins using different polymerization methods. Odontol. Clín.-Cient. (Online) []. 2013, 12, 4, pp. 281-285. ISSN 1677-3888.

Objective is to evaluate the efficiency of three activation methods on four composite resins by testing microhardness Knnop. Four composites were selected: R1-NaturalLook®-DFL, R2-Opallis®-FGM, R3-Ice®-SDI and R4-FiltekTMZ350XT 3M/ESPE. A total of 120 samples were divided into 4 groups (n = 30), 10 light-cured with halogen light continuous (F1), 10 with LED (F2) and 10 with halogen light pulsed (F3). Microhardness Knnop surface was determined by microhardness under a load of 50g for 15s, for a total of three indentations per sample. Data were analyzed by ANOVA and Tukey's test at 5% significance. For all tested materials and methods of curing, the hardness of materials R1 and R2 were not influenced by different methods (p> 0.05), the hardness of the material R3 was greater when using halogen continuous light than halogen light pulsatile (p <0.05) and R4 microhardness of the material as the use of LED was less than other methods. Microhybrid resins that showed higher hardness was R3. The resin R4 achieved best in independent study hardness of polymerization method. The halogen light continuous showed superior results to LED system.

: Composite resin microhardness; photoactivation..