NEET MDS Lessons
Dental Materials
Tooth Polishing and Cleansing Agents
1. Cleansing-removal of exogenous stains, pellicle, materia alba, and other oral debris without causing undue abrasion to tooth structure
2. Polishing-smoothening surfaces of amalgam, composite, glass ionomers, porcelain, and other restorative materials
Factors influencing cleaning and polishing
- Hardness of abrasive particles versus substrate
- Particle size of abrasive particles
- Pressure applied during procedure
- Temperature of abrasive materials
Structure
Composition
-contain abrasives, such as kaolinite, silicon dioxide, calcined magnesium silicate, diatomaceous silicon dioxide, pumice. Sodium-potassium
-aluminum silicate, or zirconium silicate; some pastes also may contain sodium fluoride or stannous fluoride, but they have never been shown to produce positive effects
Reactions-abrasion for cleansing and polishing
Properties - Mechanical
- Products with pumice and quartz produce more efficient cleansing but also generate greater abrasion of enamel and dentin
-Coarse pumice is the most abrasive
-The abrasion rate of dentin is 5 to 6 times faster than the abrasion rate of enamel, regardless of the product
-Polymeric restorative materials, such as denture bases, denture teeth, composites, PMMA veneers, and composite veneers, can be easily scratched during polishing
-Do not polish cast porcelain restorations (e.g., Dicor) that are externally characterized or the color will be lost
Mercury hygiene
- Do not contact mercury with skin
- Clean up spills to minimize mercury vaporization
- Store mercury or precapsulated products in tight containers
- Only triturate amalgam components-in tightly- sealed capsules
- Use amalgam with covers
- Store spent amalgam under water or fixer in a tightly sealed jar
- Use high vacuum suction during amalgam alloy placement, setting, or removal when mercury may be vaporized
- Polishing amalgams generally causes localized melting of silver-mercury phase with release of mercury vapor, so water cooling and evacuation must be used
COMPOSITE RESINS
Types
- Amount of filler-25% to 65% volume, 45% to 85% weight
- Filler particle size (diameter in microns)
- Macrofill 10 to 100 µm (traditional composites)
- Midi fill- 1 to 10 µm(small particle composites)
- Minifill— 0.l to 1 µm
- Microfill-: 0.01 to 0.1 µm (fine particle composites)
- Hybrid--blend (usually or microfill and midifill or minifill and microfill)
- Polymerization method
- Auto-cured (self-cured)
- Visible light cured
- Dual cured
- Staged cure
- Matrix chemistry
- BIS-GMA type
- Urethane dimethacrylate (UDM or UDMA) type
- TEGDMA-diluent monomer to reduce viscosity
Denture Teeth
Use-complete or partial dentures
Type
a. Porcelain teeth
b. Acrylic resin teeth
c. Abrasion-resistant teeth (microfilled composite)
Structure and properties
1. Porcelain teeth (high-fusing porcelain)
Only bonded into denture base mechanically. Harder than natural teeth or other restorations and abrades those surfaces. Good aesthetics.Used when patients have good ridge support and sufficient room between the arches
2. Acrylic resin teeth (PMMA [polymethyl methacrylate])
Bonded pseudochemically into the denture base. Soft and easily worn by abrasive foods . Good initial aesthetics
Used with patients with poor ridges and in cases where they oppose natural teeth
3. Abrasion-resistant teeth (microfilled resins)
Bonded pseudochemically into the denture base.Better abrasion resistance then acrylic resin teeth
CRUCIBLE FORMER
It serves as a base for the casting ring during investing .Usually convex in shape.
May be metal , plastic or rubber .
Shape depends on casting machine used .
Modern machines use tall crucible to enable the pattern to be positioned near the end of the casting machine .
Classification of Dental amalgam
1. By powder particle shape .
- Irregular (comminuted, filing, or lathecut)
- Spherical (spherodized)
- Blends (e.g., irregular-irregular, irregularspherical, or spherical-spherical)
2. By total amount of copper
- Low-copper alloys (e.g., conventional, traditional); <5% copper
- High-copper alloys (e,g. corrosion resistant); 12% to 28% copper
3.By presence of zinc
Examples
- Low-copper, irregular-particle alloy-silver (70%)-tin (26%)-copper (4%)
- High-copper, blended-particles alloy-irregular particles, silver (70%) –tin (26%) -Copper (4%); spherical particles, silver (72%)-copper (28%)
- High-copper, spherical-particles alloy-silver (60%) - tin (27%)-copper (13%)
Denture Cleansers
Use - for removal of soft debris by light brushing and then rinsing of denture; hard deposits require professional repolishing
a. Alkaline perborates-do not remove bad stains; may harm liners .
b. Alkaline peroxides-harmful to denture liners
c. Alkaline hypochlorites-may cause bleaching, corrode base-metal alloys, and leave residual taste on appliance
d. Dilute acids-may corrode base-metal alloys
e. Abrasive powders and creams-can abrade denture surfaces
Denture cleaning Method
a. Full dentures without soft liners-immerse denture in solution of one part 5% sodium hypochlorite in three parts of water
b. Full or partial dentures without soft-liners immerse denture in solution of 1 teaspoon of hypochlorite with 2 teaspoons of glassy phosphate in a half of a glass of water
c. Lined dentures -- clean any soft liner with a cotton swab and cold water while cleaning the denture with a soft brush
Properties
1. Chemical-can swell plastic surfaces or corrode metal frameworks
2. Mechanical-can scratch the surfaces of denture bases or denture teeth