Materials Flashcards
What do dentists want in restorative materials
. Safe . Cost . Command set . Easy to use/simple procedure . Good marginal seal . Can detect recurrent caries . Can view on an x-ray
What do patients want in their restorative materials
. Safe
. Cheap
. Last forever
. Aesthetics
Steps to ensuring new dental materials are safe for use
. Test in vitro to check for cytotoxicity, genotoxicity and estrogenicity.
. Test in vivo for systemic toxicity, irritation and repeated exposure effects.
. Continued post-market monitoring.
. Has a CE mark after all this.
Common adverse reactions from dental materials
. Contact dermatitis (allergic and irritant) . Oral lichenoid . Anaphylaxis reaction. . Intolerance reactions. Toxic reactions e.g. cytotoxicity.
What are the functions of restorations
. To restore function . Stop pain . Stop further decay . Protect the rest of the tooth. . Aesthetics
Methods of detected caries
. Clinically - need good lighting, dry clean teeth and magnification.
. X-rays
. Transmitted light for inter-proximal
. Separating teeth and taking an impression.
. Laser fluorescence for occlusal caries.
Types of instruments used to remove caries
Rotatory instruments Hand instruments Sonic/ultrasonic tips Pulsed Laser Air abrasion Chemo-mechanical
Air abrasion
Particles sprayed at high speed and used to cut cavities and remove occlusal caries.
Can’t be used for people with airway problems e.g. asthma.
No tactile feedback so can over-cut.
Pulsed laser
For cutting cavities.
No tactile feedback (dentist relies on sound)
Minimally invasive
Slow removal of tooth structure
Chemo-mechanical caries removal
Disrupts the collagen fibers and make sit easier to remove caries.
Selective caries removal.
Minimally invasive.
Needs an open cavity.
Different groups of materials
Metals Polymers Composites Glasses Ceramics
Tm
Transition temperature. When the atoms in the material reorganize.
Metals properties
Conductors, malleable (can be shaped cold), can be cast, strong, solid at room temp normally bc of crystal lattice.
Transitions in metals
solid -> solid (can change structure and size but still a solid)
solid + liquid -> solid
Solid -> liquid -> solid
Silica tetrahedron
Building block for silica, and glasses and ceramics.
Si bonded to 3 oxygen’s.
All the bonds have identical lengths and angles.
Ceramics
Homogeneous powder heated, dried and squashed (and shrunk). Can be squashed more by dry pressing, injection moulding.
Transition in ceramics
Solid -> solid (e.g. after hot pressing)
Powder -> solid
solid + liquid -> solid
Glasses
The random atomic arrangement makes it transparent.
Supercooled liquid - cooled in a special way that avoids nucleation/crystallization and no organisation of atoms (amorphous)
Tg is when it becomes a solid instead of Tm (Tg is cooler).
Glass-ceramics properties
Made by controlled crystallization of glass.
Not much decrease in volume during ceramming like with normal ceramics.
Less brittle bc cracks hit the crystals and lose energy.
More translucent.
Can be cast.
Glass-ceramics process of making
Heated v slowly until nucleation and then heated more to allow crystals to grow. Temperature stays below melting point.
Changing the time and temperature of the steps changes the size of the crystals.
Composite transitions
Depends on what they are made of so can’t make generalisations.
How is adhesion useful in dentistry
. Reinforces tooth structure . Conserves tooth structure . New treatments e.g. veneers and crowns . Reduced post operate sensitivity . Reduces marginal leakage/infiltration.
Adhesion vs cohesion
Force that binds 2 different materials at a molecular level (<0.7nm) vs the same material.
solid-solid vs solid-liquid adhesion
solid-solid = both have rough surfaces so not complete intimate contact at a molecular level just certain areas of contact and lots of force on these areas. Liquid can flow over the rough areas (if the surface is clean) and means there is complete intimate contact across the whole surface. Low force but large contact areas and secondary bonds.
Criteria for adhesion
- Complete intimate contact at a molecular level.
- Complete wettability.
- Forces of attraction.
What is surface tension
on the surface of a liquid there’s an imbalance of forces bc no forces outwards so overall force is into the molecule.
How is complete wettability achieved
When critical surface tension of liquid < critical surface energy of a solid, solid pulls the molecule towards it and reduces the contact angle so it is more flat onto the solid’s surface.
Different mechanisms of adhesion
- Molecular entanglement
- Micro-mechanical adhesion.
- Physical adhesion
- Chemical adhesion
Molecular entanglement
A porous solid surface is created by removing a component of that material e.g. removing the HA from dentine. The liquid (+complete wettability) flows into these holes and then is solidified e.g. polymerises, creating a hybrid layer.
Micro-mechanical adhesion
Rough solid surface with undercuts which a liquid with complete wettability on that surface can flow into and then harden. Need a clean surface.
Physical adhesion
Secondary bonds e.g. VdW and H-bonds and polar/permanent and non-polar/temporary dipole interactions. Reversible but be precursor to chemical adhesion by bringing the 2 materials together.
Chemical adhesion
Strong permanent bonds - covalent, ionic and metallic bonds.
What are physical properties of materials
Stress, Strain, Hardness, Fatigue, Abrasion resistance/wear
Young modulus
Young modulus = gradient of line and stiffness of materials (high = stiffer).
Elastic limit and resilience
Elastic limit = when material won’t go back to original shape after stress removed. Resilience = area under the straight line and is the amount of energy material can absorb before deforming.
Fracture strength
Maximum strain before the material breaks.
Ultimate tensile strength
max stress applied e.g. highest point on the graph
Fatigue
Due to the accumulation of stress e.g. cycles of stress. Given as fatigue strength (cycle stress for failure for a set number of cycles) or fatigue life (no. of cycles to failure)
Hardness/wear
Withstanding surface compression F, proportional to the size of indent and given as a number (larger for soft material). Can be measured by scratch test for abrasion resistance.
Chemical and physical properties
elasticity, viscosity, elastoviscosity, durability/degradation, thermal properties.
Elasticity
Ability to return back to original shape instantly when stress removed (Newtonian liquid)
Viscosity
Resists flow. Doesn’t return back to original shape instantly when stress removed.
Viscoelasticity
Time-dependent
Durability/degradation and dental examples
The ability of a material to withstand its environment, e.g. acid attack/erosion, dissolving, corrosion (electrochemical)
Thermal properties
Thermal expansion, exothermic reactions, thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity
Thermal expansion in dentistry
Materials need to have similar thermal expansion as tooth material so that they don’t cause cracks when they expand
Thermal conductivity
conducting heat via a temp gradient
Thermal diffusivity
material’s ability to conduct heat compared to its ability to store thermal energy e.g. when heat applied to a material, some heats up material and some conducted. In dentistry, want less to be conducted e.g. to the pulp.
Types of metal crystalline structures
Face centred cubic and body centred cubic - FCC is denser.