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Materials, Chemicals and Methods for Dental Applications

 

Johannes Karl Fink

 

 

 

 

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Preface

This book focuses on the materials used for dental applications. The text focuses on the basic issues and also the literature of the past decade. The book provides a broad overview of dental materials.

Chemicals that are used for the preparation and fabrication of dental materials are explained. Also, the desired properties of these materials are discussed. The relevance of the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties is elucidated.

Methods for the characterization and classification, as well as clinical studies are reviewed here. In particular, materials for dental crowns, implants, toothpaste compositions, mouth rinses, and also materials for toothbrushes and dental floss are discussed.

For example, in toothpaste compositions several classes of materials are incorporated, such as abrasives, detergents, humectants, thickeners, sweeteners, coloring agents, bad breath reduction agents, flavoring agents, tartar control agents, and others. These chemicals are detailed in the text and the chemical structures for a lot of these chemicals are also shown in the figures.

This text may be of importance for students of dental hygiene, therapy and nursing. Anincrease of knowledge regarding the chemical issues in this field is expected. Also, chemists and other scientists that are interested in these topics could be interested in reading this text to expand their basic knowledge.

How to Use This Book

Utmost care has been taken to present reliable data. Because of the vast variety of material presented here, however, the text cannot be complete in all aspects, and it is recommended that the reader study the original literature for more complete information.

Index

There are three indices: an index of acronyms, an index of chemicals, and a general index. In the index of chemicals, compounds that occur extensively, are not included at every occurrence, but rather when they appear in an important context. When a compound is found in a figure, the entry is marked in boldface letters in the chemical index.

Acknowledgements

I am indebted to our university librarians, Dr. Christian Hasen-hüttl, Dr. Johann Delanoy, Franz Jurek, Margit Keshmiri, Dolores Knabl Steinhäufl, Friedrich Scheer, Christian Slamenik, Renate Tschabuschnig, and Elisabeth Groß for their support in literature acquisition. Many thanks to Dr. Gerhard Kindermann, and coworkers, who inspired me to write this book in the course of my dental treatment there, and in particular thanks to Carmen Piribauer, who checked the manuscript. In addition, many thanks to the head of my department, Professor Wolfgang Kern, for his interest and permission to prepare this text.

I also want to express my gratitude to all the scientists who have carefully published their results concerning the topics dealt with herein. This book could not have been otherwise compiled.

Last, but not least, I want to thank the publisher, Martin Scrivener, for his abiding interest and help in the preparation of the text. In addition, my thanks go to Jean Markovic, who made the final copyedit with utmost care.

Johannes Fink
Leoben, 6th February 2018