Auxiliary Materials Flashcards
Six major steps to use elastomeric impression materials to fabricate gypsum models, casts etc
- Preparing a tray
- Managing tissues
3.Preparing impression materials - Making an impression
5.Removing of impression material - Preparing stone casts and dies
Use of custom tray
To reduce the quantity of material required to make an impression
Why is tissue management necessary
To ensure access for tooth preparation and for making an impression
How is tissue managed
Use of gingival retraction cord.
Objective of retraction cord
To displace the gingival tissue laterally away from the margin of the preparation.
One or two gingival retraction cords are placed under the margin around the tooth for atleast 5 min before making impressions.
When is double cord technique used
When the gingival margin is close to gingival attachment.
Manipulation of impression materials are done by?
- Hand mixing
- Static mixing
- Dynamic mixing
What is static mixing
A technique to turn two fluids into homogeneous mixture without mechanical mixing.
In static mixing the mixing top is made of?
Helical mixer elements in cylindrical housing.
What is flow division
The leading edge of the first element split the material entering the mixer into two streams.
The stream flow in either side of the helix will make 180° turn.when they reach the second element.
Both streams are split by the leading edge of the second element and two substream combine to new streams entering the second element.
Common mixing tips have how many elements and striations
11-16 elements and 2048-4069 striations
Dynamic mechanical mixing
Uses a motor to drive parallel plungers, forcing Materials into mixing top and out into an impression tray or syringe.
The use of the motor driven impeller in dynamic mixing
To nic the materials as they are passing through, not propel the material.
Which materials are used to mix in dynamic mixing
Higher viscosity materials
What are the techniques used to make an impression
1.multiple mix technique
2. Monophase technique
3. Putty wash technique
Multiple mix technique
Syringe material and tray material are used.
The syringe material is put around the tooth preparation. The filled tray is then inserted in the mouth seated over the syringe material.
The tray material will force the lighter material to adapt to the prepared tissues.
How to repair an impression in multiple mix technique
By cutting away the interproximal and gingival areas of the impression.
Impression materials surface must be roughened enough to ensure the new material bond to the set impression
Monophase technique is also
Single viscosity technique
Which impression materials are used in monophase technique
Addition silicone and medium bodied polyether
Success of monophase depends on
Pseudoplastic property of material
Putty wash technique was originally developed for which impression material
Condensation silicone
Putty wash technique
Thick putty is placed on a stock tray and made a preliminary impression is made.
Then The light bodied wash is provided in the tray during Preliminary impression making.
A thin consistency wash material is placed into the putty impression and repeated into the mouth to make a final impression
Six main causes of impression inaccuracies
- Polymerization shrinkage
2 loss of condensation reaction byproduct - Thermal contraction from oral temperature to room temperature
- Absorption of water or disinfectant over a period of time
- Incomplete recovery from deformation because of viscoelastic behaviour
- Incomplete recovery because of plastic deformation
How to know when to remove the impression material from the mouth
Inject some of the syringe material onto a space that is not field of operation before inserting the impression tray
Thie material can be probed with a blunt instrument from time to time.
When it’s firm and returns completely to its original contour the material is sufficiently elastic to be removed.
What are the mechanics of removing the impression materials
- Breaking the physical adhesion between material and tissue.
- Stretching of the material enough to pass under the height of contour of hard tissue
Which has the lowest viscosity and the least stiff elastomeric impression material
Polysulfide
Advantage and disadvantage of Hydrophobic characteristic of silicone impression
Advantage:- makes them suitable for pouring of epoxy resin to produce dies.
Disadvantage::- makes pouring with gypsum products challenging. Because it increases risks of voids in gypsum and casts
How is Hydrophobicity overcome to make gypsum products
Use of debubblizers.
Use of surfactant sprays.
Use of dilute solution of soap
An alternative to the use of surfactant is to select hydrophilized addition silicone
Which material do not need the aid of surfactant
Polyether and polysulfide
Who is it not advisable to alter the base/catalyst ratio as means of controlling working or setting time?
Working and setting time decreases as the filler content in material increases.
Altering the base or catalyst will change the curing rate of the material.
Since accelerator paste contains retarder as well as reactor, increasing it may not produce a predictable change
What are two categories of shear-thinning phenomenon
- Thixotropy
- Pseudoplasticity
What is pseudoplastic material
It displays decreasing viscosity with increasing shear stress and recovers it’s viscosity immediately upon decrease in shear stress
What is thixotropic material
It does not flower until sufficient energy in the form of impact force or vibration force is applied to overcome the yield stress of the material.
At rest , it takes specific time to regain previous viscous state