Dental cement

Dental cements have a wide range of dental and orthodontic applications. Common uses include temporary restoration of teeth, cavity linings to provide pulpal protection, sedation or insulation and cementing fixed prosthodontic appliances.^[1] Recent uses of dental cement also include two-photon calcium imaging of neuronal activity in brains of animal models in basic experimental neuroscience.^[2]

Traditionally cements have separate powder and liquid components which are manually mixed. Thus working time, amount and consistency can be individually adapted to the task at hand. Some cements, such as glass ionomer cement (GIC), can come in capsules and are mechanically mixed using rotating or oscillating mixing machines.^[3] Resin cements are not cements in a narrow sense, but rather polymer based composite materials. ISO 4049: 2019^[4] classifies these polymer-based luting materials according to curing mode as class 1 (self-cured), class 2 (light-cured), or class 3 (dual-cured). Most of the commercially available products are class 3 materials, combining chemical- and light-activation mechanisms.

^ "dental cement". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.
^ Goldey, Glenn J.; Roumis, Demetris K.; Glickfeld, Lindsey L.; Kerlin, Aaron M.; Reid, R. Clay; Bonin, Vincent; Schafer, Dorothy P.; Andermann, Mark L. (November 2014). "Removable cranial windows for long-term imaging in awake mice". Nature Protocols. 9 (11): 2515–2538. doi:10.1038/nprot.2014.165. ISSN 1750-2799. PMC 4442707. PMID 25275789.
^ J., Bonsor, Stephen (2013). A clinical guide to applied dental materials. Pearson, Gavin J. Amsterdam: Elsevier/Churchill Livingstone. ISBN 9780702031588. OCLC 824491168.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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[1] "dental cement". TheFreeDictionary.com. Retrieved 2017-11-21.

[2] Goldey, Glenn J.; Roumis, Demetris K.; Glickfeld, Lindsey L.; Kerlin, Aaron M.; Reid, R. Clay; Bonin, Vincent; Schafer, Dorothy P.; Andermann, Mark L. (November 2014). "Removable cranial windows for long-term imaging in awake mice". Nature Protocols. 9 (11): 2515–2538. doi:10.1038/nprot.2014.165. ISSN 1750-2799. PMC 4442707. PMID 25275789.

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