To provide a dental porcelain paste which can maintain maintaining the paste state and have excellent application property for a long period of time and hardly causes carbonization or bubbles due to the influence of an organic component or a polymer component during firing. The present invention provides a dental porcelain paste for preparing a dental prosthesis device, comprising: 50.0 to 80.0 wt. % of a glass powder (a) having a maximum particle diameter of 100 μm or less and an average particle diameter of 1 to 20 μm, 0.5 to 10.0 wt. % of a hydrophobized fine particle silica (b) having an average primary particle diameter of 1 to 50 nm, and 10.0 to 49.5 wt. % of an organic solvent (c) having a boiling point it is within (bp) of 100 to 300° C.

Monochromatic dental shaped body, which has an opacity of from 70 to 78%, and a process for its production.

Provided is a photocurable composition that contains a polymerizable monomer (A), a spherical filler (B) having an average particle size within the range of 230-1000 nm, and a polymerization initiator (C), the photocurable composition being such that: 90% or more of the individual particles that constitute the spherical filler (B) are within a range of ±5% of the average particle size; the polymerizable monomer (A) and the spherical filler (B) satisfy condition (X1) represented by formula (1): nP<nF (where nP represents the refractive index at 25° C. of a polymer obtained by polymerizing the polymerizable monomer (A), and nF represents the refractive index at 25° C. of the spherical filler (B)); and the polymerization initiator (C) includes a photosensitizing compound (C1), a tertiary amine compound (C2), and a photoacid generator (C3).

A mill blank may have a multilayer structure and desirable aesthetics. Such dental mill blanks may include a mill blank portion having a layered structure of two or more layers, and in which the layered structure includes an enamel layer and a core layer, the core layer comprising a first portion that is substantially a frustum, the frustum having a side face forming a part of an interface between the enamel layer and the core layer.

Provided is a composite material which comprises a resin matrix and inorganic particles dispersed therein, wherein the inorganic particles comprise: one or more groups (G-PID) of spherical particles uniform in particle diameter which comprise aggregates of inorganic spherical particles having a specific average primary-particle diameter, have a narrow particle-size-distribution width, and have a lower refractive index than the resin matrix; and a group (G-SFP) of ultrafine particles. The inorganic spherical particles which constitute all the groups of spherical particles uniform in particle diameter contained in the resin matrix have an arrangement structure which is a short-range order structure satisfying a specific requirement. Also provided are a curable composition giving the composite material and a method for producing the curable composition.

Provided is a composite material which comprises a resin matrix and inorganic particles dispersed therein, wherein the inorganic particles comprise: one or more groups (G-PID) of spherical particles uniform in particle diameter which comprise aggregates of inorganic spherical particles having a specific average primary-particle diameter, have a narrow particle-size-distribution width, and have a lower refractive index than the resin matrix; and a group (G-SFP) of ultrafine particles. The inorganic spherical particles which constitute all the groups of spherical particles uniform in particle diameter contained in the resin matrix have an arrangement structure which is a short-range order structure satisfying a specific requirement. Also provided are a curable composition giving the composite material and a method for producing the curable composition.

The present disclosure provides a composite material. The composite material includes 20 to 40 weight percent (wt. %) of a polymerizable component; 6 to 40 wt. % of ceramic fibers; and 30 to 70 wt. % of nanoclusters. Each of the ceramic fibers has a diameter and a length, the ceramic fibers having an arithmetic mean diameter of 0.3 micrometers to 5 micrometers, and the length of fifty percent of the ceramic fibers (based on a total number of the ceramic fibers) is at least 10 micrometers and the length of ninety percent of the ceramic fibers is no greater than 500 micrometers. The present disclosure also provides a method of making the composite material. The method includes obtaining components and admixing the components to form a composite material. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of using a composite material including placing a composite material near or on a tooth surface, changing the shape of the composite material near or on a tooth surface, and hardening the composite material. In addition, the present disclosure provides dental products and kits. Hardened composite materials can exhibit high strength.

The present invention provides a material composition and a process of producing translucent ZrO.sub.2—SiO.sub.2 nanocrystalline glass ceramic (NCGC) with ultra-high flexural strength. The method comprises the following step: (1) prepare homogenous ZrO2-SiO2 nano-sized powder with high purity via a sol-gel method; (2) pressure assisted sintering of ZrO2-SiO2 nano-sized sol-gel powder to obtain translucent ZrO2-SiO2 NCGC. The invention also includes materials manufactured using the method.

The present invention relates to a composite material which can be used as a dental prosthesis device (crown, bridge), and specifically, relates to a composite material including a curable resin and a fiber material, and more specifically relates to a block-like composite material for dental cutting and processing characterized by having a multilayered structure including at least two layers having different transparencies. There are no technical information relating to a color tone and a transparency of the fiber material. To provide a block-like composite material for dental cutting and processing, wherein the block-like composite material has a multilayered structure including at least two layers having different transparencies, and the each layer includes a curable resin and a fiber material.

The present invention relates to a composite material which can be used as a dental prosthesis device (crown, bridge), and specifically, relates to a composite material including a curable resin and a fiber material, and more specifically relates to a block-like composite material for dental cutting and processing characterized by having a multilayered structure including at least two layers having different transparencies. There are no technical information relating to a color tone and a transparency of the fiber material. To provide a block-like composite material for dental cutting and processing, wherein the block-like composite material has a multilayered structure including at least two layers having different transparencies, and the each layer includes a curable resin and a fiber material.