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According to ISO standards, the following properties were investigated: flexural properties, fracture toughness and water sorption\/solubility. FTIR-spectrometry was used to calculate the double bond conversion (DC%). A wear test using a chewing simulator was performed with 15,000 chewing cycles. A tensilometer was used to measure the shrinkage stress. Light transmission through various thicknesses (1, 2, 3 and 4 mm) of composite resins was quantified. The Vickers indenter was utilized for evaluating surface microhardness (VH) at the top and the bottom sides. Scanning electron microscopy was utilized to investigate the microstructure of each composite resin. The light curing protocol did not show a significant (p &gt; 0.05) effect on the mechanical properties of tested composite resins and differences were material-dependent. Shrinkage stress, DC% and VH of both composite resins significantly increased with the conventional 20 s light curing protocol (p &lt; 0.05). Light curing conventional composite resin with the fast high-intensity (3-s) curing protocol resulted in inferior results for some important material properties.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma14061381","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,14]],"date-time":"2021-03-14T22:13:10Z","timestamp":1615759990000},"page":"1381","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":36,"title":["Impact of Fast High-Intensity versus Conventional Light-Curing Protocol on Selected Properties of Dental Composites"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"14","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9457-2314","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Sufyan","family":"Garoushi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomaterials Science, Turku Clinical Biomaterial Center\u2014TCBC, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lippo","family":"Lassila","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomaterials Science, Turku Clinical Biomaterial Center\u2014TCBC, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Pekka K.","family":"Vallittu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biomaterials Science, Turku Clinical Biomaterial Center\u2014TCBC, Institute of Dentistry, University of Turku, 20500 Turku, Finland"},{"name":"Welfare Division, Oral Health Care, 20101 Turku, Finland"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,3,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"29","DOI":"10.1016\/j.dental.2010.10.020","article-title":"Resin composite\u2014State of the art","volume":"27","author":"Ferracane","year":"2011","journal-title":"Dent. 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