Restorative dentistry aims to bring damaged dentition back to acceptable functional and aesthetic levels (see Figure 1). Composite materials for dental fillings are replacing amalgam alloys due to ...

Materials that shrink when heated Date: February 10, 2012 ... An example of such a composite is Invar, an iron-nickel alloy with a uniquely low coefficient of thermal expansion.

Materials and equipment company Shofu Dental has launched a hybrid composite formulated to minimize polymerization shrinkage and shrinkage stress for all classes of restorations. Practice Specialties ...

While shrinkage isn’t much of a problem when printing small objects, anything bigger could buckle or crack as the composite dries. “If you could avoid shrinkage, you could keep scaling up ...

Researchers have published a method for 3D-printing an ink that contains calcium carbonate-producing bacteria. The 3D-printed mineralized bio-composite is unprecedentedly strong, light, and ...