Bonding Systems Flashcards
What are the properties of a dental adhesive? (6 points)
- Provide a high bond strength to tooth tissues
- Immediate high strength bond
- Durable bond
- Impermeable bond (not allow fluid to pass through)
- Easy to use
- Safe (for the patient)
Is bonding to enamel easy or hard?
- Easy due to the structure of enamel
What is meant by the heterogenous structure of enamel?
- Not having a uniform quality throughout
- Densely packed prismatic
Enamel is highly mineralised. What percentage of it is organic?
95%
IS enamel dry or wet?
- Dry - there isn’t any moisture coming out of enamel
What is the acid etch technique? (5 points)
- Long enamel prisms are filled with imperfectly packed hydroxyapatite crystals
- Acid is applied to the surface of enamel
- The enamel surface is then broken down and preferentially you end up with an etching pattern
- It is a very rough surface on a microscopic level
- Whatever resin you stick to it will impregnate the surface, polymerise, set in there and then you can’t pull it out
What does the acid etch pattern look like?
- Key holes
What does the roughened surface of etched enamel allow the composite to do?
- Allows micromechanical interlocking of resin filling materials
Etching of enamel increases the surface energy of the by removing surface contaminants. What does this lead to?
- Better wettability of the enamel
What does good wettability of enamel allow?
- The resin to adapt better to the roughened enamel surface
- For this to work the enamel must be dry. Moisture contamination will prevent flow of the resin into the etched enamel
What is wettability?
- The ability of any solid surface to be wetted when in contact with a liquid; that is, the surface tension of the liquid is reduced so that the liquid spreads over the surface
Enamel etching can be done with a variety of organic and inorganic acids but in practice what is normally used?
- 30%-50% aqueous solution of phosphoric acid
When a flowable resin (usually Bis-GMA) is applied to the etched and dried enamel surface to penetrate into the rough surface. When it is light cured and polymerised what is the bond strength?
- Roughly 20MPa
What is more difficult to bond to: dentine or enamel?
- Dentine
What is the composition of dentine? (3 points)
- 20% organic matric (mainly collagen)
- 70% inorganic matrix (mostly hydroxyapatite)
- 10% water
You can dry dentine, but why will it not stay dry?
- It will wet from within, this is because it has dentinal tubules which allow moisture to come to the surface so you have a constant fluid pump up
What is dentine full of?
- Permeable tubules
Why is dentine an inconsistent material? (2 points)
- Aged dentine is more mineralised
- Dentine near the pulp has more tubules and increased moisture content
Because dentine is wet you get a low surface energy, what does this mean?
Dentine is hydrophilic whereas most simple bonding agents are hydrophobic - so they do not want to bond
What is formed when you cut the dentine surface and acts as a further complicating factor?
- The smear layer
What are the requirements of a dentine bonding agent? (4 points)
- Ability to flow
- Potential for intimate contact with dentine surface
- Low viscosity
- Adhesion to substrate (mechanical, chemical, Van der waals, or a combination of these)
What is mechanical adhesion to dentine?
- The same as enamel bonding
- Achieved by the dentine bonding agent and the dentine surface meshing and interlocking with minimun gaps.
What is Van der Waals adhesion based on?
- Electrostatic or dipole interaction between bonding agent and substrate
What does the strength of Van der Waals adhesion depend on?
- The CONTACT ANGLE, which is an indication of the WETTABILITY of a solid by a specific liquid. A contact angle of <90 degrees means the solid surface is hydrophilic
In relation to Van der Waals forces, when in best adhesion/bonding to dentine achieved?
- When Van der Waals forces are optimised
What is critical surface energy?
The surface tension of a liquid that will JUST spread on the surface of a solid
Does a liquid have to have a lower or higher surface energy than the surface it is being placed on for it to flow onto it and stick?
- Lower surface energy
- A low surface energy liquid will spread on a higher surface energy substrate because this leads to a lower surface energy of the material as a whole
Wet dentine has a low surface energy, lower then composite filling materials. For composite resin to stick to dentine you must make the surface if the dentine have a higher critical energy than the composite. Dentine bonding agents increase the surface energy of the dentine surface and allow the composite to flow and stick to the surface. What is the name for these dentine bonding agents?
- Surface wetting agents
How does a surface wetting agent work?
- You have a molecule that has a wet end and an oil end, the wet end has a lower surface energy than the substrate, so it will stick to the substrate and the oily bit sticks up at the end and so changes the substrate from having a low surface energy to a higher surface energy by the use of the intermediate molecule
- The dentine bonding agent is just like a surface wetting agent
How is adhesion between a material and dentine achieved?
- Through molecular entanglement
The adhesive is absorbed onto the surface but can also penetrate into the surface of the dentine. This is due to good wetting of the dentine by the adhesive and appropriate surface energies of the two. The absorbed component can form a long chain polymer. What happens to this polymer?
- it meshes with the substrate - molecular entanglement - leading to high bond strength
What is the smear layer?
- An adherent layer of organic debris that remains on the dentine surface after the preparation of the dentine during the restoration of a tooth