Estimating the Weight of Dental Amalgam Restorations
and without the restoration was the weight of the amalgam restoration. The mean weight (and standard deviation [SD]) was 0.55 g (SD 0.59 g) for all 530 restorations, 0.48 g (SD 0.58 g) for the restorations from anatomical replicas and 0.71 g (SD 0.60 g) for the restorations from natural teeth. A Tukey-style stem-and-leaf plot27 revealed that the
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