W.M. Palin

Postgraduate Student, University Birmingham School of Dentistry, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham, B4 6NN

Advances in light-curing units: four generations of led lights and clinical implications for optimizing their use: part 2. from present to future


Scanwave by MiniLedTM (Acteon) could be considered as the first fourth-generation LED light to come to the market (Figures 4 to 6). As well as incorporating many of the ideal features of the best...

Three generations of led lights and clinical implications for optimizing their use. 1: from past to present

Early LED units were low powered (<1 Watt total output from a 7–19 diode array) with relatively low irradiance levels (range 100–280 mW/cm2) requiring prolonged radiation times of up to 60 s for a 2...