Dental materials : clinical applications for dental assistants and dental hygienists /2nd ed.
Carol Dixon Hatrick, W. Stephan Eakle, William F. Bird
- 2nd ed
- St. Louis, Mo. : Saunders/Elsevier, c2011
- xiv, 281 p. : col ill. ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction to dental materials -- Oral environment and patient considerations -- Physical properties of dental materials -- General handling and safety -- Principles of bonding -- Compsites, glass ionomers, and compomers -- Preventive and bleaching materials -- Dental ceramics -- Dental amalgam -- Casting metals, solders, and wrought metal alloys -- Dental implants -- Abrasion, finishing, and polishing -- Dental cement -- Impression materials -- Gypsum products -- Polymers for prosthetic dentistry -- Provisional restorations -- Dental waxes