Overviews on the Progress of Polymeric Materials for Dental Applications II
A special issue of Polymers (ISSN 2073-4360). This special issue belongs to the section "Polymer Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2024) | Viewed by 6706
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Dear Colleagues,
If field scientists and technicians were called upon to summarize the essential advances of the present and the future trends in dentistry, with regard to the materials applied and studied for restorations, prosthetics, and other special applications, polymeric materials would most definitely be the chosen material. Homopolymers and copolymers, depending on their chemical structure (often cross-linked structure for durability), provide a wide range of properties to meet requirements. When polymers alone do not easily meet these needs, polymeric composites are used as reinforcements. Thus, as the title indicates, the evolution of all kinds of polymeric materials for dental applications is the scope of the current Special Issue.
Polymeric materials are often present in dental restorations (direct and indirect), dental prostheses, therapeutic treatments or impression applications, with the first category prevailing in number. Each of these classes is of great depth in order to cope with the respective disease.
Nanocomposites or hybrid biomaterials are cutting-edge products that have proven their usefulness in many cases, while photopolymerization or self-polymerization are dominant when it comes to curing. Clinical tests, monomer detection, biocompatibility parameters, and further standard compliance are indispensable in studies of dental polymeric materials.
On the success of "Overviews on the Progress of Polymeric Materials for Dental Applications ", a previous Special Issue of Polymers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/polymers/special_issues/overviews_progress_poly_dental), we are pleased to open a second volume of this Special Issue and continue to collect the recent developments in dental polymeric materials.
Dr. Evangelia Vouvoudi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- polymeric composite biomaterials
- polydimethacrylate resins
- dental restorations and prostheses
- dental decay
- bis-GMA
- PMMA
- cross-linked polymers
- photopolymerization
- nanomaterials
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