Journal:
:journal of lasers in medical sciences
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soghra yassaei department of orthodontics, faculty of dentistry, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
hossein aghili department of orthodontics, faculty of dentistry, shahid sadoughi university of medical sciences, yazd, iran
azadeh hosseinzadeh firouzabadi department of oral pathology, faculty of dentistry, lorestan university of medical sciences, khorramabad, iran
hamidreza meshkani department of orthodontics, faculty of dentistry, lorestan university of medical sciences, khorramabad, iran
introduction: this study was performed to determine the shear bond strength of rebonded mechanically retentive ceramic brackets after recycling with erbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet (er:yag) laser or sandblasting. methods: twenty-eight debonded ceramic brackets plus 14 intact new ceramic brackets were used in this study. debonded brackets were randomly divided into 2 groups of 14. one group...