Original scientific paper

The Most Frequently Used Materials for Compensation of Hard Dental Tissue

Alena Knežević
Zrinka Tarle
Andrej Meniga
Vlatko Pandurić
Jozo Šutalo

Abstract

The continual progress in development of new dental materials for tooth fillings and the presence of those materials on the market confuse the dentist when choosing the most appropriate material. The purpose of this research was to carry aut a survey in order to find out what are the most frequently used materials for permanent tooth fillings, dentine adhesives and polymerization units in clinical practice. The survey covered 304 subjects (doctors/dentists) with experience ranging from 1 to 40 years of practice. The results show that Tetric Ceram (Vivadent, Schaan, Liechtenstein) is the most used composite material, Syntac (Vivadent, Schaan, Liechtenstein) the most used dentine adhesive and Heliolux (Vivadent, Schaan, Liechtenstein) the most used curing unit for photopolymerisation of composite materials in clinical practice.

Keywords

composite resin; dentine adhesives; glass ionomer cements; polymerization units

Hrčak ID:

11460

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/11460

Publication date:

15.12.2000.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 3.258 *