pubmed-article:11143734 | pubmed:abstractText | Tooth preparation requires safe, efficient and rapid cutting, and diamond burs routinely are used for extracoronal preparation and gross tooth reduction. Coarser-grit diamond burs often are used for gross tooth reduction, with tooth surface finishes being sacrificed for the presumed greater cutting rates, or CRs, of the coarser diamond burs. The authors compared the CRs of medium-, coarse- and super-coarse-grit diamond burs. | lld:pubmed |