The present invention relates to dental cement composition that is more biocompatible and stimulates quicker healing of the damaged dental tissues. Specifically, the invention relates to dental cement composition comprising a combination of dental repair compounds consisting of nanoparticles of Tri-calcium Silicate (Ca3SiO5), Di-calcium Silicate (Ca2SiO4), Calcium Titanate (CaTiO3) and Hydroxyapatite (Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2).

A palladium-based alloy having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of about 12.0 to about 13.0 and having one or more of the following additive metals: platinum, gallium, chromium, molybdenum, tin, silicon, ruthenium, rhenium, indium, tungsten, niobium, boron and lithium.

Radically polymerizable, difunctional phenylene sulfide according to Formula I

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in which X, Y independently of each other in each case are absent or are O or NR.sup.6, R.sup.1, R.sup.2 independently of each other in each case are H, a linear or branched C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alkyl radical, OR.sup.7, SR.sup.8, Cl or Br, R.sup.3 is absent or is a C.sub.1-C.sub.10 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O or S, R.sup.4 is absent or is a C.sub.1-C.sub.10 alkylene radical which can be interrupted by O or S, wherein R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 cannot be absent at the same time, R.sup.5 is H or a C.sub.1-C.sub.5 alkyl radical, R.sup.6, R.sup.7, R.sup.8 independently of each other in each case are H or a linear or branched C.sub.1 to C.sub.10 alkyl radical, a, b, c, d independently of each other in each case are 0 or 1 and e is 1 or 2.

The present invention provides a dental adhesive material kit excellent in storage stability of the materials and exhibiting excellent bond durability to dentin by photopolymerization. The present invention is a dental adhesive material kit comprising a dental aqueous adhesive composition (A) and a dental curable composition (B), wherein: the dental aqueous adhesive composition (A) comprises a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (a) containing an acid group, a vanadium compound (b), water (c), a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (d) containing an amino group, and a polymerization inhibitor (i); the content of the polymerization inhibitor (i) is 25 to 1000 parts by weight per 100 parts by weight of the vanadium compound (b); and the dental curable composition (B) comprises a (meth)acrylic polymerizable monomer (e) containing no acid group, a hydroperoxide (f), a photopolymerization initiator (g), and a filler (h) and does not comprise a thiourea compound.

The present invention discloses a dental implant configured to be inserted in a hole in jaw bone and to be at least partially situated in the bone tissue when implanted and comprises: a coronal region, an apical region, a longitudinal axis extending from the coronal region of the dental implant to the apical region of the dental implant; an implant surface configured to form an interface between an implant material and the oral environment/surrounding tissue and a surface layer formed on at least part of said implant surface, said surface layer comprising crystalline titanium oxide in the anatase phase and wherein the surface area roughness Sa and the pore size of the implant surface on which said surface layer is formed increase from the coronal region toward the apical region of the dental implant along the longitudinal axis.

A method of depositing a relatively thin film of bioinert material onto a surgical implant substrate, such as a dental implant. Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) may be used to deposit a layer of tantalum and/or other biocompatible materials onto a solid substrate comprised of an implantable titanium alloy, forming a biofilm-resistant textured surface on the substrate while preserving the material properties and characteristics of the substrate, such as fatigue strength.

A dental prosthesis and a process for design and manufacturing, incorporating a dental implant framework and veneering overlay that will be designed and manufactured simultaneously and permanently fixated to one another.

A palladium-based alloy having a coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of about 12.0 to about 13.0 and having one or more of the following additive metals: platinum, gallium, molybdenum, tin, silicon, ruthenium, rhenium, indium, tungsten, niobium, boron and lithium.

The invention relates to a scan abutment (2) for determination of the position of the plane of the front face (1.1) of a dental endosseous implant (1), wherein the abutment (2) has a longish, hollow shaft (4) and a base (3) at the bottom side (4.2) of the shaft (4), and the base (3) with at least a part of its bottom side (8.2) is attachable onto the front face (1.1) of the implant (1), wherein the base (3) has a recess (9) extending from the upper side (8.1) to the lower side (8.2) of the base (3), wherein the longish, hollow shaft (4) has from a side wall (10) having at least one through hole (5a) at its outer periphery, wherein the through hole of the side wall (10) extends from the bottom side (4.2) of the shaft (4) to the upper side (4.1) of the shaft, thereby forming a planar surface (6) in the plane (12) between shaft (4) and base (3).

A resin block that can be favorably used for obtaining dental prosthetics through the milling work, containing very little voids, having excellent property for being cut, exhibiting excellent appearance and mechanical strength, and without permitting the formation of defective products. The resin block contains a thermoplastic resin having a fluidizing temperature in a range of 310 to 500 C. and inorganic particles in an amount of 30 to 150 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of said thermoplastic resin. The inorganic particles are at least one kind of inorganic oxide particles selected from the group consisting of silica particles, silica composite particles of silica and other metal oxides, titania particles, and titania composite particles of titania and other metal oxides. The resin block has a thick portion of a thickness of at least not less than 5 mm, and does not contain any void whose length is not less than 1.0 mm.