DENTAL MATERIALS M4 • OBTURATOR

DENTAL RESIN o Patients with cleft palate

• Plastics
o Blocks the space to improve speech
• Common in powder – liquid form
• CONSTRUCTION OF MAXILLOFACIAL
• Solubility: 0.1%
STRUCTURES

USES OF RESIN:
o Artificial replacement of facial parts
• INDIVIDUAL TRAY

• FACING FOR A ¾ CROWN

• CEMENTING MEDIUM
o Labial is made of resin while M, D and Li is
o Pontics, crowns, inlays, onlays
made of metal
• DENTURE BASE
• BASE PLATE
o Part of the denture that rest on the soft
o for easier setting
tissues where pontics are attached

• PONTICS

o Artificial teeth
GOOD QUALITIES OF DENTURE BASE MATERIALS:
o Can be resin(plastic) or porcelain
• DIMENSIONALLY STABLE
• JACKET CROWNS
o No shrinkage or expansion
o Houses the tooth
• NON-TOXIC
o Can be acrylic resin or porcelain
o No irritating ingredients
• RESTORATIVE MATERIAL
• TRANSPARENT/TRANSLUSCENT
o Tooth colored materials that are usually
seen in anterior teeth o Simulates the tissues they are supposed to
replace
• RELINING/REBASING
• COLOR STABLE
o Resurfacing or changing the entire base
o During fabrication and normal usage
o Lasts longer than ZOE paste
• INSOLUBLE BY ANY FLUIDS
• REPAIRING
• ABLE TO WITHSTAD ABRASION
o Repair fractured denture
o Durable
• MOUTH GUARDS
• PALATABLE
o Patients who suffer from night grinding or
persons who do sports use mouth guards to o Tasteless
prevent attrition
o odorless
o Rubber-like in nature
• CAPABLE OF BEING TAINTED OR PIGMENTED
• PITS AND FISSURE SEALANT
o Simulate the color of the tissue being
o Protects young molars from premature
replaced/copied to make it look natural
onset of caries
• EASY TO REPAIR
• REMOVABLE ORTHODONTIC APPLIANCE
• LOW SPECIFIC GRAVITY
o Base for expanders
o For stability
o Base for retainers
o Upper is more stable than lower
 • IMPERMEABLE TO ORAL FLUIDS  Prevents premature polymerization
of liquid during storage
• EASY TO FABRICATE WITH SIMPLE
LABORATORY EQUIPMENTS o GLYCOL DIMETHACRYLATE

 Cross-linking agent

*No resin material can meet all the requirements listed.  Improve strength of resin

 CRAZING

VULCANITE RESIN • Linear cracks found on

surface
• First non-metallic resin

COMPOSITION OF RESIN:

• POWDER: POLYMER

o POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATE

 Beads/pearl form
-Rosette Go 012009 
o BENZOIL PEROXIDE

 Initiator of polymerization process

o DIBUTYL PTHALATE

 Plastisizer

 Improves workability

o COLORING MATERIALS

 Shade

o TALC/GELATIN

 Prevention of cohesion during

storage

o DYED SYNTHETIC FIBERS

 Copies the small veins and arteries

in the gingiva

o TITANIUM DIOXIDE

 Fillers

• LIQUID: MONOMER

o METHYL METHACRYLATE

 Colorless liquid

 Sweetish odor

 Toxic when inhaled in a long period

of time

o HYDROQUINONE

 Inhibitor