Dental Restorative Materials: GICs W9 Flashcards
What are the two types of Glass Ionomer Cements?
GIC
Resin Modified GIC
What are the contraindications to using GIC?
- In stress bearing
- Class I, II, IV
- Cusp replacement
- xerostomia patients
- in mouth breathers
- in areas requiring high aesthetics
What are some indications of using GIC?
- Restoration in permanent teeth
- Small Class I, III, V
- Abrasion/erosion
- Restoration in primary teeth: I, V, Rampant and nursing bottles
- Luting and cementing- inlay, only crown, veneers, orthodontic brackets
- Endodontics
- Sandwich technique
- Atraumatic restorative treatment
What are disadvantages of GIC?
- Brittle
- Low fracture resistance
- Low Modulus of Elasticity
- Water Sensitive during setting
- Radiolucency
What are advantages to GIC?
- Adhesion to tooth structure
- Biocompatible
- Anticariogenic
- Conservation tooth prep
- Aesthetic
- Less technique sensitive
- Little shrinkage and good marginal wear
- Low solubility
What are essential components of GIC?
- Poly acid
- FAS Glass
- Water
- Tartaric acid
What are the 3 steps of GI setting reaction?
- Acid attack (dissolution)
- Hydrogel (gelation)- water protections, prevents dissolution
- Maturation (hardening)- water addition, prevents dehydration
What is rapidly released in the setting reaction?
Ca2+ loosely bound to glass
What is not involved in the setting reaction?
F and Na, combine and released as NaF
What happens in the stage 1 acid attack?
- Carboxylic acid attacks the surface of the glass releasing metal ions
- COOH + H20 → COO- + H30+
What happens in stage 2 hydrogel?
- COO- + M form salt bridge, ionic crosslinking
- Ca is released more rapidly, forms initial crosslink
- must be protected from additional water to prevent loss of metal cations
What happens in stage 3 maturation?
- Al is released more slowly, replaces Ca overtime
- Takes up to 7 days, Al has stronger crosslink
- Water uptake, takes up to several months
- Water loss leads to cracking, chalky appearance
What is the role of tartaric acid?
- Controls the setting characteristics
- Delays set, cement is easier to mix and speeds up set
- Ca preferentially binds to tartaric acid forming calcium tartrate instead of salt bridge matrix
What is the role of water?
- Solvent for polyacrylic acid
- prevents contamination and dehydration
- medium where setting reaction takes place- provides a means for ion transport
- Component of set cement- chemically bound and provides stability to restoration
What does water contamination do?
- Loss of translucency
- Susceptible to erosion
What does dehydration do?
Chalky appearance, cracking and softening
What are the 2 types of water in GIC?
- Loosely bound: removed easily by drying
- Tightly bound: cannot be removed
How do you prevent contamination/dehydration?
- Use a rubber dam or cotton rolls and suction for isolation
- Place a covering for the GI restoration
What is the best covering for GIC?
Light-polymerised bonding agent:
- acts as a glaze
- improved aesthetics
- decreases cracking and loss of translucency
- increase in strength
How is fluoride released?**
- It is a by product of the setting reaction.
- Occurs over a period of time. Peaks at 24 hrs and stabilises at 3-4 months
- Buffering: F released in acidic conditions
- Reservoir effect: F taken up by GIC and can be recharged with F
How does GIC adhere to tooth surface?
- Micro-mechanical interlocking
Removal of smear layer with conditioner before placement of GIC restoration with 10-25% polyacrylic acid.
Direct bonding with tooth and cement, as acid displaces P042- and Ca2+ ions on enamel and dentine surface, the in surface energy increases
- True chemical bonding = interfacial zone of ion exchange between carboxyl groups of cement and ca2 of tooth.
What product decreases cracking?
Light-polymerised bonding agent
You have stabilised the health of your patients gums, but they aren’t happy with the look of tooth 21. What material can you use to restore 21?
RMGIC- because chemical retention is not needed.
What is the atraumatic restorative technique?
- Hand instruments to remove caries
- GIC used
- Unreliable electrical power supplies- where there are no drills!
- Suitable for middle/low income countries