A dental cement includes: a first component containing a glass powder; a second component containing a polycarboxylic acid-based polymer, an organic polybasic acid, and water. The glass powder contains zinc and silicon. A solubility of a salt of a conjugate base of the organic polybasic acid and zinc ions in water at 20 C. is greater than or equal to 1 g/100 mL.

The present invention relates to: composition for differentiating non-dental mesenchymal stem cells into odontoblasts comprising CPNE7 protein or gene; method for differentiating in vitro non-dental mesenchymal stem cells using the same; and also use thereof.

To provide a phosphate-based dental investment material which can used for metal and press ceramic and especially can impart the lubricity to the surface of a press ceramic, and a phosphate-based dental investment material which can be subjected to a flash heating for press ceramic, can obtain sufficient the hardening expansion, and can easily remove the investment material after press molding. A phosphate-based dental investment material of the present disclosure comprising a powder material and a liquid material, wherein the powder material contains (a) magnesium oxide: 5 to 20 wt. %; (b) ammonium dihydrogenphosphate: 8 to 25 wt. % and the liquid material contains (c) aqueous solution including a cation-treated colloidal silica.

The present invention generally relates to the use of pre-formed bodies of Chemically Bonded Ceramics (CBCs) biomaterial for implantation purposes wherein the bodies are prepared ex vivo allowing process parameters to be optimized for desired long term properties of the resulting CBC biomaterial. More particularly, the pre-formed CBC material bodies of the present invention are sintered. The pre-formed body of CBC material is machined to the desired geometry and then implanted using a CBC cementation paste for fixation of the body to tissue. The invention also relates to a method of preparing pre-formed bodies of CBC biomaterial for implantation purposes, methods of preparing an implant thereof having desired geometry, and a method of implantation of the implant, as well as a kit for use in the method of implantation.

Described is a stable, two-component low viscosity composite that is capable to achieve excellent adaptation to walls/substrates due to its intrinsic flow ability and is also capable of rapid viscosity increasing and being manipulated prior to cure by light upon mixing of such a two-paste composite due to one distinguished reaction promoting partial network formation thus to allow a practitioner further manipulate a firm composite. Upon a completed manipulation by the practitioner, such a mixed material should be readily cured into final solid form by using conventional curing light.

Provided area hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin slurry, and a hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin dental material and use thereof, which relate to the technical field of dental materials. In the disclosure, the hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin slurry includes the following raw materials: a dimethacrylate monomer, triethylene glycol dimethacrylate, perfluoroalkyl acrylate, a diluent, nano-silica, -methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane, camphorquinone, and a photo-curing accelerator.

Provided area hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin slurry, and a hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin dental material and use thereof, which relate to the technical field of dental materials. In the disclosure, the hydrophobic and self-cleaning resin slurry includes the following raw materials: a dimethacrylate monomer, triethylene glycol dimethacrylate, perfluoroalkyl acrylate, a diluent, nano-silica, -methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane, camphorquinone, and a photo-curing accelerator.

A process for producing a sintered lithium disilicate glass ceramic dental restoration by way of sintering under reduced atmospheric pressure conditions at a temperature above 600 C. is described. Further described is a kit of parts for producing a sintered lithium disilicate glass ceramic dental restoration.

A process for producing a sintered lithium disilicate glass ceramic dental restoration by way of sintering under reduced atmospheric pressure conditions at a temperature above 600 C. is described. Further described is a kit of parts for producing a sintered lithium disilicate glass ceramic dental restoration.

A biocompatible composite material for controlled release is disclosed, comprising a biocompatible metal oxide structure with a loaded network of pores. The pore network of the biocompatible composite material is filled with a uniformly distributed biologically active micellizing amphiphilic molecule, the size of these pores ranging from about 0.5 to about 100 nanometers. The material is characterized in that when exposed to phosphate-buffered saline (PBS), the controlled release of the active amphiphilic molecule is predominantly diffusion-driven over time.