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Dental Composite Materials for Direct Restorations

Abstract

It has been suggested that soon there will be a day when dental restoratives would be no longer inert materials that merely fill the space left by cavity preparation, but instead, once placed in intimate contact, should stimulate dental tissues regeneration and/or be themselves selfmending. Although this day is yet to come, an overview of this book chapter provides the rationale and context to infer that such expectation may not be so far from fulfillment. The literature is plentiful of reports recounting new approaches to the manufacturing of biocompatible and structurally sufficient materials that can be applied to replace or repair dental, oral, and craniofacial tissues, focusing on clinical efficiency and usefulness. In this way, the main challenge of dental material industry is to obtain bioactive regenerative materials to recreate the entire tooth structures in a realistic scale. The intention of the present chapter is not to exhaust the subject but rather provide some brushstrokes about the state of the art and future perspectives of bioactive restorative materials.

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