Provided is a dental bulk block made from a glass-ceramic material having a crystalline phase embedded in an amorphous glass matrix. The crystalline phase includes eucryptite and at least one lithium silicate-based crystalline phase selected from the group consisting of lithium metasilicate and lithium disilicate. The dental bulk block is a functionally graded material having a crystalline size gradient with respect to a depth thereof and having no interface at a point of change in main crystalline size gradient value. The bulk block that is heat-treated at 820° C. for 40 minutes exhibits a characteristic peak of a spodumene crystalline phase in an X-ray diffraction analysis result graph unlike the bulk block that is heat-treated at 820° C. for 2 minutes.

The present invention provides a dental adhesive material kit that exhibits high adhesive property to tooth structure and dental prosthesis through photopolymerization while maintaining good ease of handling with the paste properties that undergo little change during long storage. The present invention relates to a dental adhesive material kit comprising: an aqueous adhesive dental composition (X) comprising a radical polymerizable monomer (a) containing an acidic group, a polymerization accelerator (b), water (c), and a radical polymerizable monomer (d) containing no acidic group; and a curable dental composition (Y) comprising a hydrophilic radical polymerizable monomer (d-1) containing no acidic group, a hydrophobic radical polymerizable monomer (d-2) containing no acidic group, a chemical polymerization initiator (e), a photopolymerization initiator (f), and a filler (g), the filler (g) being a filler treated with a surface treatment agent, and having an average particle diameter of 0.01 to 50.0 μm, the surface treatment agent comprising a silane coupling agent (A) represented by general formula [1], and an organosilazane (B) represented by general formula [2].

Disclosed are a dental gradient color-resin ceramic restoration material and a preparation method thereof. The method includes: preparing at least two paste materials with different colors, respectively dispersing the paste materials with different colors at a certain speed and under a vacuum of -0.01-0.1 MPa to obtain at least two granular materials with different colors having an average size of 0.1 mm to 5 mm; spreading the at least two granular materials with different colors to be flat in a mould in sequence to obtain at least two layers, and then tightly combining the at least two layers at a pressure of 0.5-5 MPa to obtain a semi-finished product of a gradient color-resin ceramic restoration material; polymerizing and curing the semi-finished product at 60-200° C. and 2-50 MPa to obtain a multilayer gradient color-resin ceramic restoration material.

A zirconia sintered body is provided and includes yttria and zirconia, containing yttria by a content ranging from 4.5 mol % or more to 6.5 mol % or less and zirconia as the remainder, the total light transmittance of a 1-mm thick sample measured in compliance with JIS K 7361-1 being 46.5% or higher, the three-point bending strength being 700 MPa or higher, and a ratio of an integrated value for the total light transmittance to an integrated value for the parallel light transmittance of a 1-mm thick sample measured at the measurement wavelength ranging from 400 to 700 nm being 1.3% or less.

A photocurable composition includes a photopolymerizable component and a photopolymerization initiator. In a case in which a rectangular sheet-like test piece is produced by photomodeling under conditions in which the photocurable composition is irradiated with visible light having a wavelength of 405 nm at an irradiation dose of 12 mJ/cm.sup.2 to form a cured layer with a thickness of 50 .Math.m, the cured layer is stacked in a thickness direction thereof to form a rectangular sheet-like modeling product with a length of 40 mm, a width of 10 mm, and a thickness of 1 mm, and the modeling product is irradiated with ultraviolet rays having a wavelength of 365 nm at an irradiation dose of 10 J/cm.sup.2 to produce the test piece, the test piece has an X-ray absorption coefficient of from 9.0 cm.sup.-1 to 34.0 cm.sup.-1.

The present invention relates to particles comprising a core, in particular a magnetic core, and a first coating of a first shell material, wherein a second coating of a second shell material is applied to the surface of the first coating facing away from the core, the second shell material is different from the first shell material and has a higher refractive index than the first shell material.

The present invention relates to particles comprising a core, in particular a magnetic core, and a first coating of a first shell material, wherein a second coating of a second shell material is applied to the surface of the first coating facing away from the core, the second shell material is different from the first shell material and has a higher refractive index than the first shell material.

A dental composition is provided as a coating comprising glass flakes providing improved wear-5 resistance and aesthetic properties. The compositions may be used in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity, dental caries, or in the protection of a tooth from the external environment of the mouth.

A dental composition is provided as a coating comprising glass flakes providing improved wear-5 resistance and aesthetic properties. The compositions may be used in the treatment of dentine hypersensitivity, dental caries, or in the protection of a tooth from the external environment of the mouth.

A preform intended for the production of a dental prosthesis. The preform includes a group of agglomerated ceramic, glass-ceramic or glass particles, such that, as volume percents: more than 40% and less than 90% of the particles of said group have a size greater than 0.5 μm and less than 3.5 μm, said particles hereinafter being denoted “enamel particles”, and more than 10% and less than 60% of the particles of said group have a size greater than 3.5 μm and less than 5.5 μm, said particles hereinafter being denoted “dentine particles.” The microstructure of the preform is such that there is an axis X, termed “axis of variation”, along which the Ve/(Ve+Vd) ratio changes continuously, Ve and Vd denoting the volume percents of enamel particles and of dentine particles, respectively. The enamel and dentine particles representing, together, more than 90% of the volume of the agglomerated particles.