“…The polymerization shrinkage is an inherent characteristic of the resin composites (Braga et al, 2005;Rizzante et al, 2019), which depends on a number of factors including the material composition, the degree of conversion, the volume, and the elastic modulus (Braga et al, 2005;Braga et al, 2012;Benetti et al, 2014;Kim and Park, 2014;Van Dijken and Lindberg, 2015;Ferracane and Hilton, 2016;Han et al, 2019). The fact is that stress cannot be considered an isolated factor when it comes to the marginal adaptation of resin composite restorations; other factors, such as thermal changes and occlusal loads (Kim and Park, 2014;Van Dijken and Lindberg, 2015), placement of resin composite (Furness et al, 2014;Yoshimine et al, 2015;Correia et al, 2018;Alqudaihi et al, 2019), curing technique (dos Santos et al, 2007;Gamarra et al, 2018), cavity size and geometry (Braga et al, 2006;Borges et al, 2014;Han et al, 2016;Han et al, 2019) also may have a significant effect.…”