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Dental materials - is the future now?

Dental materials - future ‘active' resins?

British Dental Journal volume 236, pages 460–461 (2024)Cite this article

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  • Current ‘passive' adhesive restorative materials are not capable of bio-interaction with dental tissues and biological fluids.

  • Innovative restorative materials could capitalise on natural healing processes via ‘smart' materials that can repair gaps at bonding interfaces, preventing bacterial penetration.

  • Future treatment may achieve a targeted bottom-up deposition of apatite-like crystals, rather than mineral precipitation onto the surface of demineralised dental substrates.

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  1. Professor in Dental Biomaterials, Departamento de Odontología, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad CEU-Cardenal Herrera, Spain; Co-ordinator of Dental Research and Director (Principal Investigator) of the Research Group, In Situ Dental Tissues Engineering and Minimally Invasive Therapeutic Adhesive Rehabilitation; Visiting Professor, Department of Neurosciences, Reproductive and Odontostomatological Sciences, University of Naples, Federico II, 80131 Naples, Italy

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Sauro, S. Dental materials - future ‘active' resins?. Br Dent J 236, 460–461 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-024-7185-2

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