Fracture toughness and surface cracks--the key to understanding ceramic brackets.
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Wiley
- Vol. 58 (1) , 5-8
- https://doi.org/10.1043/0003-3219(1988)058<0005:FTASC>2.0.CO;2
Abstract
The mechanical properties of ceramic brackets, particularly fracture toughness, are so different from those of metal brackets that their selection and handling requires a completely different set of criteria and techniques.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: