effect of curing time upon the molecular weight of acrylic denture base resin cured by microwave energy

ABSTRACT

This work was performed to study the effect of microwave curing time upon themolecular weight of acrylic denture base resin. Twelve test specimens wereprocessed from a heat cured acrylic resin, all the specimens were cured withmicrowave energy and were classified according to the curing time into 3equal groups [6, 10 and 14 minutes]. Their molecular weights were determined. It was found that there was a direct relation between the microwave curingtime of the specimens and their molecular weights