Dental Materials and Implants

P(EMA-co-HEA)/SiO2 hybrid nanocomposites for guided dentin tissue regeneration: structure, characterization and bioactivity.

“…Dentin can be exposed to oral diseases, chemical-physical injuries (trauma, exogenous or endogenous substances), as well as to alterations due to imperfections occurring while being formed [20] . Although there are other oral lesions, caries is the most common dental problem by which the dentin matrix is damaged.…”

“…surrounding tissues and organs as well as to the whole organism. In the regeneration of the dental mineralized tissues, chemical or physical adhesion to enamel or dentin is important in preventing recurring caries, to avoid breakdown and infiltration, and in saving the healthy tissue [20] . Rapid surface reactions in osteoinductive (or osteoproductive) materials stimulate both extracellular and intracellular (differentiation and proliferation) responses at the interface of the material with its physiological environment, giving rise to rapid in vivo bone regeneration.…”