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Dental professionals and dental patients are exposed to the same sensitizers even if the exposure differs and also the outcome. Dental professionals suffer predominantly from irritant contact dermatitis and to a lesser degree from allergic contact dermatitis to (meth)acrylates and rubber products. Dental patients rarely have allergic contact stomatitis. The major sensitizers in dental professionals are methacrylates in dentin bonding agents, in dental composite resins, and in prostheses in addition to rubber chemicals, metals, fragrances, and disinfectants. In dental patients metal contact allergy dominates. The various sensitizers that may give lichenoid reactions in these patients are also discussed.

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  1. Department of Occupational and Environmental Dermatology, Skåne University Hospital, Jan Waldenströms gata 16, level 5, Malmö, Skåne, SE 205 02, Sweden

    Marléne Isaksson MD, PhD

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  1. Gentofte Hospital, National Allergy Research Centre, Hellerup, Denmark

    Jeanne Duus Johansen

  2. Laboratoire de Dermatochimie, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg cedex, France

    Jean-Pierre Lepoittevin

  3. Gentofte Hospital Dept. of Dermato-Allergology, Hellerup, Denmark

    Jacob P. Thyssen

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Isaksson, M. (2016). Dental Materials. In: Johansen, J., Lepoittevin, JP., Thyssen, J. (eds) Quick Guide to Contact Dermatitis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47714-4_17

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