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Dental Care

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Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials

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Dental treatment

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Dental care involves broad area of treatment and of tooth decay. Tooth decay occurs because of dental caries, fracture, erosion by acid, wear by chewing stress, and so on. The treatment of tooth is mainly recovering the shape, color, and function of dental hard tissues, such as dental enamel and dentin. This treatment is described as restoration of tooth, and the materials used in this treatment are said to be dental restorative materials. Metal, ceramics, inorganic cement, and polymeric materials have been mainly utilized as the dental restorative materials.

Introduction

Restorative dental materials are selected according to the requirement of each clinical case. For example, restorative material for posterior teeth is required to be resistant to the chewing stress. The materials for anterior teeth should provide the natural color of teeth. In general, the requirements for restorative material are variable according to the clinical case; however,...

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  1. Cariology and Operative Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8549, Japan

    Junji Tagami

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  1. Center for Fiber and Textile Science, Kyoto Institute of Technology, Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

    Shiro Kobayashi

  2. Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz, Germany

    Klaus Müllen

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Tagami, J. (2015). Dental Care. In: Kobayashi, S., Müllen, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Polymeric Nanomaterials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29648-2_233

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