Applied dental materials, 9th ed.9781405139618 Applied dental materials, 9th ed. McCabe, J. F. and Angus W.G. Walls. Blackwell Publishing 2008 303 pages $74.00 Paperback RK652 In this updated text, McCabe and Walls (both of the School of Dental Sciences, Newcastle U., UK) introduce undergraduates and above in dentistry to the materials used in the field and the ways they are applied. Thirty-one chapters--including a new one on endonic materials-- cover topics including: gypsum products for dental casts, waxes, metals and alloys, ceramics and porcelain fused to metal, synthetic polymers, denture denture, artificial replacement for natural teeth and surrounding tissue. Dentures are classified as partial or complete. The former are removable and maintained by clasps, or are fixed bridges with crowns cemented over adjacent teeth or over spikes embedded in the lining materials, impression materials, dental amalgam dental amalgam Dentistry A filling material that contains up to 50% mercury, silver and other metals. See Alternative dentistry, Fluoridation, Gutta percha, Mercury. , resin-based filling materials, glass ionomer ionomer (īon´  mr),n a polymer containing ion. restorative materials, temporary crown and bridge resins, and cements based on phosphoric acid phosphoric acid, any one of three chemical compounds made up of phosphorus, oxygen, and hydrogen (see acids and bases). The most common, orthophosphoric acid, H3PO4, is usually simply called phosphoric acid. , among others. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR) |
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