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Acrylic Dental Resin
Acrylic Dental Resin
The backbone of molecule formed in this sytem can have any shape, but
methacrylate groups are foud at the ends of the chain or at the end of branching
chains. One of the first multifunctional methacrylates used in dentistry was
bowens resins, or bis-GMA (Fig.7-16). The bis-GMA resin can be described as an
aromatic ester of a dimethacrylate, synthesized from an epoxy resin (ethylene
OH