Developing a novel antibacterial dental resin composite with improved properties

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (22) ◽  
pp. 3085-3092 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Wen ◽  
Rashed Almousa ◽  
Gregory G Anderson ◽  
Dong Xie

A novel antibacterial resin composite has been developed and evaluated. Glycerol dimethacrylate was derivatized to have an antibacterial moiety attached and incorporated to a conventional resin composite formulation. Compressive strength and bacterial viability were used to evaluate the modified resin composites. Results showed that the modified resin composites showed a significantly enhanced antibacterial activity along with improved mechanical and physical properties. It was found that bromine-containing resin composite showed a higher antibacterial activity than its chlorine-containing counterpart. The modified resin composites showed an increase of 37–41% in yield strength, 23–27% in modulus, 9–15% in diametral tensile strength and 5–12% in flexural strength and a decrease of 35–69% in bacterial viability, 20–37% in water sorption, 7–12% in shrinkage and 7–10% in compressive strength, as compared to unmodified resin composite. Within the limitations of this study, the modified resin composite may potentially be developed into a clinically useful dental restorative since it demonstrated good mechanical strengths and potent antibacterial function.

Author(s):  
Dalia Abdel Hamid ◽  
Amal Esawi ◽  
Inas Sami ◽  
Randa Elsalawy

Adhesively-bonded resin composites have the advantage of conserving sound tooth structure with the potential for tooth reinforcement, while at the same time providing an aesthetically acceptable restoration. However, no composite material has been able to meet both the functional needs of posterior restorations and the superior aesthetics required for anterior restoration. In an attempt to develop a dental resin composite that had the mechanical strength of hybrid composite materials and the superior polish and gloss retention associated with microfilled materials, nanofilled resin composites have been introduced in the market. Although nanofillers are the most popular fillers utilized in current visible light-activated dental resin composites and are claimed to be the solution for the most challenging material limitations as a universal restorative material, the mechanisms by which these fillers influence the resin composite properties are not well explained. In this study, some physical and mechanical properties of a nanofilled resin composite containing 60 vol. % zirconia and silica fillers were evaluated and compared to those of a microhybrid resin composite of the same composition. The nanofilled resin composite was found to have equivalent polymerization shrinkage and depth of cure to the microhybrid material but a slightly lower degree of conversion and density. Regarding mechanical behaviour, although the nanocomposite was found to exhibit significantly higher wear resistance, and equivalent flexural strength, its indentation modulus and nanohardness were slightly lower. Field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) analysis was conducted in order to evaluate the microstructure and to obtain a better understanding of the effect of the nanofillers on the behaviour of the nanocomposite.


2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-486 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yu Zhang ◽  
Cui Huang ◽  
Jiang Chang

MCS containing resin composites possess enhanced mechanical properties and antibacterial activity, and can smartly induce the deposition of apatite minerals.


2010 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 529-536 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yijun Wang ◽  
Isabel K. Lloyd

Nanoindentation and the viscous-elastic–plastic (VEP) model developed by Oyen and Cook for lightly filled thermoplastic polymer composites were used to characterize the elastic modulus, hardness, and viscoelastic response of a new high elastic modulus dental resin composite. The VEP model was used because loading rate studies indicated a viscous component in the loading/unloading response of our highly filled, thermosetting acrylic resin composites. Increasing the volume fraction of our high modulus filler increased the elastic modulus and hardness and decreased the viscous response in our composites. Coupling the filler and resin matrix with a commercial coupling agent like Metaltite or MPTMS (3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane) that ionically bonds to the filler and covalently bonds to the matrix decreases the viscous response and increases the hardness of the composite. The coupling agents did not affect the elastic modulus. The ability of the VEP model to predict load–displacement trajectories and the correlation of the elastic modulus and hardness values determined from the VEP model with those from the direct continuous stiffness measurement mode nanoindentation measurements indicate that the VEP model can be extended to highly filled, thermosetting systems. This is valuable since the potential to predict elastic, plastic, and viscous contributions to behavior should be valuable in the design and understanding of future highly filled resin composite systems.


2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 272-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dayane Carvalho Ramos Salles de Oliveira ◽  
Karla Rovaris ◽  
Viviane Hass ◽  
Eduardo José Souza-Júnior ◽  
Francisco Haiter-Neto ◽  
...  

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of low shrinkage monomers on physicochemical properties of dental resin composites. Two low shrinkage resin composites: one with a crosslink branching monomer (Kalore, GC Corp) and a novel monomer (Venus Diamond, Heraeus Kulzer) were compared to a conventional resin composite formulation (Filtek Z250, 3M/ESPE). The volumetric shrinkage was evaluated by µCT analysis (n=5) and the physicochemical properties by degree of C=C conversion (DC), flexural strength (FS) and Young's modulus (YM) (n=10). All samples were light cured by a LED device (Radii, SDI) with 16 J/cm2. The results were analysed by one-way ANOVA and Tukey test for multiple comparisons (α=0.05). No statistical difference was found between µCT shrinkage values to Kalore (1.8%) and Venus Diamond (1.7%) (p≥0.05); Z250 presented statistical highest shrinkage value (2.0%). Kalore presented higher statistical DC (60.8%) than Venus Diamond (49.5%) and Z250 (49.6%). No statistical difference was found between FS or YM properties to Venus Diamond and Z250; Kalore presented statistical lowest FS and YM properties (p≥0.05). Conclusion: Using novel monomers seem to reduce polymerization shrinkage without affecting the physicochemical properties evaluated of resin composites rather than using crosslink branching monomers.


2013 ◽  
Vol 795 ◽  
pp. 626-630 ◽  
Author(s):  
Saad Omar Alsharif ◽  
Md Akil Hazizan ◽  
Nasser Abbas Abd El-Aziz ◽  
Zainal Arifin Ahmad

The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of filler loading on the sorption and solubility of Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) of self-prepared micro dental resin composites. The prepared resin composite was based on silica (SiO2) particles and bisphenol-a-glycidyl methacrylate (Bis-GMA) as a base monomer and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA) as a co-monomer. The filler was mixed with monomers, in proportions of 40, 50 and 60 wt.%. A resin matrix containing 0 wt.% filler was used as the control composition to evaluate the effect of filler loading on the sorption and solubility of SBF. The experimental methods were based on the procedure mentioned in the ISO 4049 (2009) standard for dentistry-Polymer-based restorative Materials. The sorption and solubility of resin matrix/SiO2composite decreased gradually as the filler loading increased. The increase of filler loading showed significant differences in the sorption and solubility as tested by ANOVA (P= 0.000).


2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tejas Barot ◽  
Deepak Rawtani ◽  
Pratik Kulkarni

Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the effect of Chlorhexidine-loaded Halloysite nanotubes (HNT/CHX) fillers (diverse mass fractions from 1 to 10 wt.%) on physicochemical, morphological and biological properties of newly developed experimental dental resin composite, in order to compare with the properties of composites composed of conventional glass fillers. Methods: The dental resin composites were prepared by incorporating various proportions of HNT/CHX. Six different groups of specimens: control group and five groups composed of varied mass fractions of HNT/CHX (e.g., 1.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10 wt.%) as fillers in each group were fabricated. Mechanical properties of the composites were monitored, using UTM. The degree of conversion of dental resin composites and their depth of cure were also evaluated. Antimicrobial properties of dental composites were studied in vitro by applying agar diffusion test on strain Streptococcus mutans and cytotoxicity were studied using NIH-3T3 cell line. Results: The incorporation of varied mass fractions (1.0 to 5.0 wt.%) of HNT/CHX in dental resins composites enhanced mechanical properties considerably with significant antibacterial activity. The slight decrease in curing depth and degree of conversion values of composites indicates its durability. No cytotoxicity was noticed on NIH-3T3 cell lines. Significance: Consistent distribution of HNT/CHX as a filler into dental composites could substantially improve not only mechanical properties but also biological properties of dental composites.


2015 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 336-341
Author(s):  
Shuang Bao ◽  
Rui Li Wang ◽  
Bin Sun ◽  
Xiao Ze Jiang ◽  
Mei Fang Zhu

To explore the preparation of novel dental resin composites with enhanced properties, two commercial silica particles with sizes of around 1μm and 40 nm were chosen as inorganic fillers, and firstly surface functionalized by 3-methacryloxypropyltrimethoxysilane (γ-MPS) to incorporate cross-linkable vinyl groups onto the surface of fillers. Then the modified fillers were blended with organic monomers, bisphenolAdiglycidyldimethacrylate (Bis-GMA) and triethylene glycol dimethacrylate (TEGDMA), to fabricate the resin compositeswith a three-roll mixer.Resin composites with various weight percentage of fillers and component ratio of microparticle and nanoparticle were prepared. Surface functionalization of silica particles was characterized by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and mechanical properties degree of conversion, and depth of cure of the resultant resin composites were investigated byuniversal testing machineand FTIR. The results indicated that surface modification of silica particles was successful and the surface organic contents were 3.29% and 4.34%, respectively. Among the studied resin composites, the resin composite with 75 wt.% silica particles (59 wt.% microparticles and 16 wt.% nanoparticles) presented the highest value of depth of cure (5.52 ± 0.07 mm), and optimum mechanical properties such as flexural strength (149.8 ± 3.3 MPa), flexural modulus (13.8 ± 0.06 GPa), compressive strength (340.6 ± 8.3 MPa) and Vicker’smicrohardness (78.26 ± 2.45 HV). The study of dental resin composites fabricated from commercial silica particles with excellent properties might provide a new sight for realizing the preparation of this kind of dental resin composites in an industrial scale.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan-Lei Yang ◽  
Ya-Nan Cui ◽  
Qian Sun ◽  
Mei Liu ◽  
Hao Niu ◽  
...  

The accumulation of bacteria at the margin of dental resin composites is the main reason of secondary caries, which may further cause failure of prosthodontics. Therefore, antibacterial activity is highly...


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