DENTAL MATERIALS

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Depending on the filler content, they are classified as:

Type I or unfilled resins

Type II or composites or filled resins

  1. Composite is a compound of two or more different constituents with properties that are superior to those of the individual constituent.
  2. Composition:
  3. a) Resin matrix: The matrix consists of Bis-Phenol A Glycidylmethacrylate (BisGMA)       and   Triethylene   Glycol   dimethacrylate (TEGDMA). TEGDMA is used as a viscosity controller.
  4. b) Fillers – Silica

Addition of fillers increases the strength hardness, abrasion resistance and decreases. the polymerization shrinkage and water sorption.

Composites are classified depending upon the average size of the filler particles that form a major component of filler system:

Macrofillers

Midifillers

Minifillers

Microfillers

nanofillers

10 to 100 microns

1 to 10 microns

0.1  to 1 microns

0.01  to 0.1 microns

0.005 to 0.01 microns

 

  1. c) Coupling agent – Organosilane, zirconates (or) titanates. They bond the filler particles to the resin matrix.
  2. d) Inhibitor – hydroquinone

Prevents premature polymerization

  1. e) Opacifiers and coloring pigments

Titanium dioxide and aluminum oxide are the opacifiers.

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