Dental Materials

Dental Materials

1. History of Dental Materials

   • Early treatments
     • Bridges
     • Impressions
     • Fillings
   • Recent developments -20th century

2. Oral Environment

3. Characteristics of Dental Material

   • Preventive Materials
   • Intermediary Materials and cements
   • Aesthetic Materials-anterior restoratives
   • Posterior Restoratives
   • Materials for Inlays, Onlays, crowns and bridges

4. What is this heading towards?

   • Stem cell stimulation
     • Lasers
     • GSK-3