Recent Advances and Developments in Composite Dental Restorative Materials
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- 5 October 2010
- journal article
- review article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Dental Research
- Vol. 90 (4), 402-416
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0022034510381263
Abstract
Composite dental restorations represent a unique class of biomaterials with severe restrictions on biocompatibility, curing behavior, esthetics, and ultimate material properties. These materials are presently limited by shrinkage and polymerization-induced shrinkage stress, limited toughness, the presence of unreacted monomer that remains following the polymerization, and several other factors. Fortunately, these materials have been the focus of a great deal of research in recent years with the goal of improving restoration performance by changing the initiation system, monomers, and fillers and their coupling agents, and by developing novel polymerization strategies. Here, we review the general characteristics of the polymerization reaction and recent approaches that have been taken to improve composite restorative performance.Keywords
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