Photopolymers and use in dental restorative materials

Details Photopolymers and use in dental restorative materials Photopolymers and use in dental restorative materials

2004-10-22

2010-11-23

Berman, Susan W (Department: 1796)

Synthetic resins or natural rubbers -- part of the class 520 ser

Synthetic resins

Compositions to be polymerized by wave energy wherein said...

C522S048000, C522S167000, C522S180000, C523S115000, C523S116000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07838571

ABSTRACT:
Photopolymerizable polymer composites based on dimethacrylate systems have been increasingly utilized as dental restorative materials. One of the biggest drawbacks of current dental resin systems is the volume shrinkage and shrinkage induced stresses that arise during the polymerization. Other major problems include incomplete double bond conversion and insufficient wear resistance. This invention involves the development of an entirely novel approach to the photopolymerization process that utilizes thiol-ene systems as low shrinkage and ultra-low shrinkage stress dental restorative materials. Compared with the traditional dimethacrylate dental resins, these novel photopolymerizations have demonstrated a dramatically decreased volume shrinkage, extremely rapid polymerization, abilities to photopolymerize ultrathick materials and achieve much higher conversion, lack of oxygen inhibition and ultra-low shrinkage stress due to low volume shrinkage and drastically delayed gel point conversion. These polymers have thus shown outstanding suitability as dental restorative materials.

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