25Apr 2017

SMART DENTAL MATERIALS: A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT LITERATURE.

  • Post graduate student, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental college Deralakatte-575018.
  • Professor & guide, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College Deralakatte-575018.
  • Senior professor & Head of the Department, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental College Deralakatte-575018.
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Dental materials are stable and have greater durability if they do not react with the environment and remain passive. At the same time, it is also expected that these materials will be well accepted and will cause neither harm nor injury. This is an entirely negative approach to material tolerance and biocompatibility. This outlook hides the possibility through which positive gains can be achieved by using materials that behave in a more dynamic fashion in the environment in which they are placed. The current dental materials are improvised. The use of smart materials has brought a great revolution in dentistry. The smart behaviour of materials occur when it sense some stimulus from surrounding environment and reacts to it in an intelligent way to do a specific function. These materials can be altered in a controlled manner by various stimuli such as stress, temperature, moisture, pH and electric or magnetic field. The key feature of smart behaviour includes its ability to return to it?s original state after the stimulus is removed. Some of the smart materials used are resin modified glass ionomers, amorphous calcium phosphate releasing pit and fissure sealants, smart composites, smart ceramics, smart antimicrobial peptide, smart coating on implant, orthodontic shape-memory alloys, smart impression materials, smart sutures, smart burs, smart fibers, smart endodontic files etc. These materials have revolutionized dentistry and hence the beginning of new chapter in Biosmart Dentistry


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[Riyas Ahamed K, Prathap M.S and K Harish S Shetty. (2017); SMART DENTAL MATERIALS: A REVIEW OF THE CURRENT LITERATURE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Apr). 990-998] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


DR. RIYAS AHAMED K,
Post graduate student, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Yenepoya Dental college,Yenepoya university, Deralakatte-575018

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/3934      
DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/3934