Disclosed are biomimetic mineral based endodontic cement compositions. An endodontic cement comprises a paste A and a paste B. The paste A comprises a pozzolanic cementitious mineral paste and the paste B is a mixture comprising polyanionic polymers, phosphates, cement setting modulators, host-inclusion particles, bioactive glasses, and radiopacity agents suspended in a liquid carrier.

Described herein are dental treatment compositions, more particularly, a dental varnish composition useful in effective fluoridation, enhancement of remineralization the tooth enamel, and hypersensitivity through occlusion of dentine tubule. The dental varnish composition includes a hydrogel system and at least one fluoride source, wherein the dental varnish is water soluble. The hydrogel system includes at least one polyphenol having at least one phenol group, at least one polymer, and a metal ion. Described herein are also methods of making such dental varnish composition.

The present invention relates to a process for producing a workpiece made of glass ceramics, and to the workpiece obtainable by the process according to the invention. Further, the invention relates to the use of the workpiece obtained as a dental restoration, and to a process allowing the translucency of a workpiece to be controlled.

Described is a milling blank for producing an indirect dental restoration, composed of resin or a resin-based composite, containing water in an amount of at least 25% of the water sorption W.sub.sp. Described is further a method for producing such a milling blank or a moulded part produced therefrom for use as an indirect dental restoration, a use of the water sorption method, a kit for producing indirect dental restorations and a method for indirect dental restoration.

Disclosed is an organic/inorganic composite filler that contains: inorganic agglomerated particles comprising agglomerations of inorganic primary particles having a mean diameter between 10 and 1000 nm; an organic resin phase that covers the surface of each inorganic primary particle and binds the inorganic primary particles to each other; and intra-agglomerate voids, formed between the organic resin phase covering the surface of each inorganic primary particle, with a pore volume (here, pore refers to holes with diameters between 1 and 500 nm) between 0.01 and 0.30 cm.sup.3/g as measured by mercury intrusion porosimetry. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing the above organic/inorganic composite filler.

Cellulose cyanoacrylate is employed to bond two surfaces, fill voids or duplicate the shape of a three-dimensional object, Two surfaces may be bonded by placing a sheet of cellulose material between the surfaces and applying cyanoacrylate glue around the edge of the sheet until saturated and allowing it to cure. Paper toweling may favorably be employed as the cellulose material. A break or fracture in an article can be overlaid with a sheet of cellulose that when saturated with cyanoacrylate glue and temporarily held in place and shaped with a releasable film, the fracture can be corrected. A dry powder comprising highly abrasion-resistant particles can be mixed with the cellulose material to enhance abrasion resistance and to improve long-term color stabilityespecially important for dental cavity treatment. To duplicate the shape of a three-dimensional object, a sheet of releasable film is placed over the object, followed by a sheet of cellulose that is then saturated with cyanoacrylate glue. A sheet of releasable film is then placed over the cellulose and used to hold the cellulose in place and shape it as it hardens.

Slip for the stereolithographic preparation of ceramic or glass ceramic shaped parts which comprises (a) at least one radically polymerizable monomer, (b) at least one photoinitiator, (c) ceramic and/or glass ceramic particles and (d) at least one non-ionic surfactant.

Lithium silicate-low quartz glass ceramics are described which are characterized by a combination of very good mechanical and optical properties and can therefore be used in particular as restoration material in dentistry.

Provided is a dental restorative composition that has good handling properties when in the form of a paste having yet to be cured and that has light diffusion ability and transparency when in the form of a cured product. The dental restorative composition includes a polymerizable monomer, a polymerization initiator, an inorganic filler (C) having an average particle diameter of 0.1 to 1 m, an organic-inorganic composite filler (D) having an average particle diameter of 1 m or more and less than 10 m, and an organic-inorganic composite filler (E) having an average particle diameter of 10 to 50 m. An absolute value of a difference between a refractive index (Cd) of the inorganic filler (C) and a refractive index (Ad) of a polymer of the polymerizable monomer is 0.01 or less, an absolute value of a difference between the refractive index (Ad) and one of a refractive index (Dd) of the organic-inorganic composite filler (D) and a refractive index (Ed) of the organic-inorganic composite filler (E) is 0.01 or less, and an absolute value of a difference between the refractive index (Ad) and the other of the refractive index (Dd) and the refractive index (Ed) is 0.03 or more.

The invention relates to glass-ceramics based on the lithium disilicate system which can be mechanically machined easily in an intermediate step of crystallisation and, after complete crystallisation, represent a very strong, highly-translucent and chemically-stable glass-ceramic. Likewise, the invention relates to a method for the production of these glass-ceramics. The glass-ceramics according to the invention are used as dental material.