title: Versatile composite resins simplifying the practice of restorative dentistry.
abstract: After decades of technical development and refinement, composite resins continue to simplify the practice of restorative dentistry, offering clinicians versatility, predictability, and enhanced physical properties. With a wide range of products available today, composite resins are a reliable, conservative, multi-functional restorative material option. As manufacturers strive to improve such properties as compression strength, flexural strength, elastic modulus, coefficient of thermal expansion, water sorption, and wear resistance, several classification systems of composite resins have been developed.
authors.affiliation: Adjunct Professor, Department of Operative Dentistry, University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, Iowa; Private Practice, Des Moines, Iowa.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Margeas
mesh_terms: D000180:Acrylic Resins; D003188:Composite Resins; D003793:Dental Restoration, Permanent; D003813:Dentistry; D011140:Polyurethanes
chemical_list: D000180:Acrylic Resins; C029012:Composite Dental Resin; D003188:Composite Resins; D011140:Polyurethanes