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Bioactive materials in endodontics
- Source :
- Expert Review of Medical Devices. 5:475-494
- Publication Year :
- 2008
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2008.
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Abstract
- Endodontic treatment in dentistry is a delicate procedure and many treatment attempts fail. Despite constant development of new root canal filling techniques, the clinician is confronted with both a complex root canal system and the use of filling materials that are harmful for periapical tissues. This paper evaluates reported studies on biomaterials used in endodontics, including calcium hydroxide, mineral trioxide aggregate, calcium phosphate ceramics and calcium phosphate cements. Special emphasis is made on promising new biomaterials, such as injectable bone substitute and injectable calcium phosphate cements. These materials, which combine biocompatibility, bioactivity and rheological properties, could be good alternatives in endodontics as root canal fillers. They could also be used as drug-delivery vehicles (e.g., for antibiotics and growth factors) or as scaffolds in pulp tissue engineering.
- Subjects :
- Calcium Phosphates
Mineral trioxide aggregate
Ceramics
medicine.medical_specialty
Materials science
Biocompatibility
Root canal
Biomedical Engineering
Dentistry
chemistry.chemical_element
Biocompatible Materials
Calcium
Calcium Hydroxide
Root Canal Filling Materials
chemistry.chemical_compound
Tissue engineering
medicine
Animals
Humans
Aluminum Compounds
Drug Carriers
Calcium hydroxide
Tissue Engineering
business.industry
Silicates
Bone Cements
Oxides
General Medicine
Calcium Compounds
Endodontics
Root Canal Therapy
Drug Combinations
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
Tooth Diseases
Bone Substitutes
Pulp (tooth)
Surgery
business
Biomedical engineering
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 17452422 and 17434440
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Expert Review of Medical Devices
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3f792ff7ce5b3fd26d5d7946c1305556
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1586/17434440.5.4.475