title: Dental amalgam. I: Conventional and non-gamma-2 amalgams.
abstract: The disadvantage of conventional amalgams lies in the fact that they form the so-called gamma-2 phase, which corrodes very easily. The gamma-2 phase can be reduced or suppressed by either adding powder with globules of a eutectic silver-copper alloy in portions of 9-33% to a common filing powder (dispersion type alloy) or by producing the powder from a homogeneous alloy of silver, copper and tin (one-component alloy). NG-2 amalgams show noticeably better physical properties than conventional amalgams. Nevertheless, they, too, corrode.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung für Konservierende Zahnheilkunde, Univ.-Klinik für Zahn-, Mund- und Kieferheilkunde, Graz.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Städtler
mesh_terms: D003343:Corrosion; D003723:Dental Amalgam / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D003723:Dental Amalgam