title: Dental biomaterials and the healing of dental tissue.
abstract: This paper addresses the application of new adhesive technologies to dentistry. The bonding of synthetic polymers to dentin is difficult and it has taken a long time to produce reliable methods. Success has been achieved suing a 4-methacryloyloxyethyltrimellitate anhydride/methyl methacrylate-tri-n-butyl borane system which allows the generation of a layer of hybridised dentin. This provides a pseudo-wound-healing layer that resists demineralisation and degradation, is impermeable and inhibits secondary caries and hypersensitivity.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Surugudai, Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan. n.nak@jb4.so-net.ne.jp
authors.forename: Nobuo
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakabayashi
mesh_terms: D000268:Adhesiveness; D002484:Cementation / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D001840:Dental Bonding / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D003738:Dental Cements / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry; D003804:Dentin / Q000737:chemistry*; D017220:Dentin-Bonding Agents / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000737:chemistry*; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry*; D013499:Surface Properties; D013718:Tensile Strength; D014945:Wound Healing
chemical_list: D003738:Dental Cements; D017220:Dentin-Bonding Agents; D011108:Polymers