Dental Materials
Materiais Dentários
Curse code:9791101
Armanda Maria Subtil Amorim Rodrigues De Abreu
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
After Curricular Unit end, the student should be able to recognize all the materials that will be placed at their disposal, in all the strands: composition, properties and utilization for that purchase powers which enable it to work in partnership with, Dentists, Dental Surgeons, Maxillo-facial Surgeons and Oncologists, fabricating all devices essential to oral and maxillo-facial rehabilitation with scientific rigor and technical.
Thus should:
- Recognize all types of materials that are indicated for provisional and definitive’s technical maneuvers.
- Ability to interpret the behavior of materials in function not only of its general characteristics as also of their individual properties.
- Apply to a whole proper handling, accepting and complying with the instructions and specific instructions from the manufacturer.
- Recognize all the requirements of the oral environment, tailoring the choice of materials to all the factors affecting their properties and favoring the contact device / host (biocompatibility).
- Use technical-scientific language standard.
- Analyze and reflect on the most appropriate model of learning.
Syllabus:
- Historical evolution of materials. Concept of standardization and responsible institutions.
- Brief notions of biocompatibility.
- Classification and examples of materials: Their properties and type of use.
- Properties of materials: physical, chemical and mechanical.
- Study of provisional materials: Print and model materials: alginates, elastomers, gypsum, waxes, investments for castings.
- Study of definitive materials: Acrylic resins, metals and alloys, ceramics. Glass polymers.
Suggested Bibliography:
- Anusavice K (2003) Philips’ Science of Dental Materials, 11th ed., USA: Saunders Elsevier.
- Branco CAM (2006) Mecânica dos Materiais, 4th ed., Fundação Gulbenkian.
- Powers JM & Wataha JC (2012) Dental Materials: Properties and Manipulation, 10th ed., Mosby.