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ZOE can be used as a dental filling material or dental cement in dentistry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is often used in dentistry when the decay is very deep or very close to the nerve or pulp chamber. Because the tissue inside the tooth, i.e. the pulp , reacts badly to the drilling stimulus (heat and vibration), it frequently becomes severely inflamed and ...
Dental cermets, or silver cermets, are a type of restorative material dentists use to fill tooth cavities. Silver cermets were created to improve the wear resistance and hardness of another type of filling material, glass ionomer cements, through the addition of silver. While the incorporation of silver achieved this, cermets have poorer ...
Recent uses of dental cement also include two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity in brains of animal models in basic experimental neuroscience. [2] Traditionally cements have separate powder and liquid components which are manually mixed. Thus working time, amount and consistency can be individually adapted to the task at hand.
Mineral trioxide aggregate (MTA) is an alkaline, cementitious dental repair material. MTA is used for creating apical plugs during apexification, repairing root perforations during root canal therapy, and treating internal root resorption. It can be used for root-end filling material and as pulp capping material.
Compomers absorb water more rapidly than dental composites due to the addition of hydrophilic resin monomers within the matrix (see Composition section above). As such, water equilibrium is reached within days rather than weeks, months or even years in the case of dental composite materials. This property has the advantage of compensating for ...
A glass ionomer cement (GIC) is a dental restorative material used in dentistry as a filling material and luting cement, [1] including for orthodontic bracket attachment. [2] Glass-ionomer cements are based on the reaction of silicate glass-powder (calciumaluminofluorosilicate glass [ 3 ] ) and polyacrylic acid , an ionomer .
Dental compomers are another type of white filling material although their use is not as widespread. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Compomers were formed by modifying dental composites with poly-acid in an effort to combine the desirable properties of dental composites, namely their good aesthetics, and glass ionomer cements, namely their ability to ...
This image taken from the Dental Cosmos shows a box of bottles containing dental cement which was used to lute dental crowns, bridges and inlays. It was produced by the L.D. Caulk Company in the early 1900s. A luting agent is a dental cement connecting the underlying tooth structure to a fixed prosthesis.