title: Low-shrink composite resins: a review of their history, strategies for managing shrinkage, and clinical significance.
abstract: Despite numerous advances in composite resin technology over the course of many decades, shrinkage behavior and the resultant stresses inherent to direct placed composite restorations continue to challenge clinicians. This overview of composite resins includes a review of their history and development along with a discussion of strategies for reducing polymerization shrinkage. An assessment of the clinical significance of these materials is also provided, including a discussion of the differences between polymerization shrinkage and stress, incremental layering versus bulk placement, and the emergence of lower shrinkage stress monomer chemistry.
authors.affiliation: Associate Clinical Professor of Operative Dentistry, Director of Predoctoral and CDE Esthetic Studies, Columbia University College of Dental Medicine, New York, New York.
authors.forename: Mark L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Pitel
mesh_terms: D003188:Composite Resins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000266:history; D001840:Dental Bonding / Q000379:methods; D003764:Dental Materials / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D058105:Polymerization; D013314:Stress, Mechanical; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D003188:Composite Resins; D003764:Dental Materials