Dental Materials Glossary

The ability of a dental material to withstand surface loss caused by mechanical wear from opposing teeth, abrasives, or...

In fixed prosthodontics and implantology, the tooth or implant component that provides support and retention for a prost...

A mode of bond failure in which fracture occurs at the interface between the adhesive and one of the substrates (tooth o...

A dental restorative material composed of an alloy of mercury with other metals, traditionally silver, tin, and copper,...

A category of dental casting alloy composed primarily of non-precious metals—most commonly nickel-chromium, cobalt-chrom...

The fracture stress of a disc-shaped dental ceramic or resin specimen loaded centrally over a support circle, generating...

A ceramic-based dental or biomedical material engineered for direct contact with biological tissues, possessing biocompa...

A dimethacrylate-based resin material commonly used for chairside fabrication of provisional restorations, distinguished...

Bisphenol A-glycidyl methacrylate; the primary monomer used as the resin matrix in most dental composite resins and some...

A quantitative measure of the force per unit area required to separate a dental material from a substrate, typically exp...

A digital workflow technology in which restorations are designed using software (CAD) and milled or 3D-printed by comput...

The most common photoinitiator in visible-light-cured dental resins, absorbing maximally at approximately 468 nm in the...

The technique of applying a thin layer of aesthetic porcelain to the visible surface of a metal or high-strength ceramic...

A proprietary chairside CAD/CAM system developed by Dentsply Sirona for the same-visit design and milling of ceramic and...

A ceramic-optimised polymer; a tooth-coloured, resin-based veneering material containing a high ceramic filler content,...

A material property expressing the rate at which a dental material expands or contracts per unit of temperature change,...

A polyacid-modified composite resin that combines elements of composite resin and glass ionomer chemistry, primarily use...

A tooth-coloured restorative material composed of a resin matrix (typically bis-GMA) reinforced with inorganic filler pa...

The time-dependent permanent deformation of a dental material under sustained compressive load, relevant to amalgam and...

The maximum stress a dental material can sustain under axial compressive loading before fracture, reported in megapascal...

The slow, time-dependent plastic deformation of a dental material under sustained load, particularly relevant in amalgam...

A light-emitting device used in clinical dentistry to activate the photoinitiators in light-cured dental materials and i...

The proportion of reactive carbon–carbon double bonds (C=C) within a resin monomer that have been converted to single bo...

A metallic mixture of two or more elements, at least one of which is a metal, formulated for use in dental restorations...