Properties Of Dental Ceramics And Composites

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Properties of dental ceramics and composites.

New microstructures have also been developed by the industry in order to offer ceramic and composite materials with optimized properties i e good mechanical properties appropriate wear behavior and acceptable aesthetic characteristics. V novel processing technologies. 2 department of dental materials vishnu dental college bhimavaram west godavari andhra. Their properties vary over a wide range.

Over the last decade it has been observed that there is an increasing interest in the ceramic materials in dentistry. 1 department of prosthodontics vishnu dental college bhimavaram west godavari andhra pradesh india. Composition of dental ceramics and dental porcelain. Jithendra babu 1 rama krishna alla 2 venkata ramaraju alluri 1 srinivasa raju datla 1 anusha konakanchi 3.

This article in part i. Industrial ceramics are commonly understood to be all industrially used materials that are inorganic nonmetallic solids. Usually they are metal oxides that is compounds of metallic elements and oxygen but many ceramics. Dental ceramics and processing technologies have evolved.

Esthetically these materials are preferred alternatives to the traditional materials in order to meet the patients 39. The term dental ceramics comprises a wide variety of materials that reaches from filled glasses to nearly dense sintered ceramics from products that are shaped from powders and melts to components milled from blanks before or after sintering. The concern that a ceramic will fracture in service remains a problem for ceramic alloy and all ceramic restorations alike although the newest crystalline ceramics see figure 14 3 are beginning to challenge this notion. The most common ceramics used in dentistry are alloys of 3 main metallic oxides sio2 al2o3 k2o.

Ceramics or porcelains are chemically intimate mixtures of metallic and non metallic elements that allow ionic k2o and or covalent bonding sio2 to occur. Ceramics are widely used for making artificial denture teeth crowns bridges ceramic posts abutments and implants and veneers over metal substructures 1 9. Modern dental composite materials are thus a blend of glass or ceramic particles dispersed in a photopolymerizable synthetic organic resin matrix. Suggested the effect of a short fiber as the filler on the physical and depth of cure properties of dental restorative composite materials and compared it with eight other commercial dental composites.

Part i an overview of composition structure and properties. Reviews the composition structure and properties of dental ceramics from the literature available in pubmed and other sources from the past 50 years. Tanja lube robert danzer in advanced ceramics for dentistry 2014.