Dental Chemical Use

Dental experts use a variety of chemical products for daily care services. These chemicals are an important part of the treatment process and provide important patient benefits

The purpose of this website is to help dental professionals make informed choices about the selection and use of their chemicals.

For example, this site contains data on the amount of X-ray film, developer, and fixer. According to this survey, the dentist will use this data on average. In fact, you can use this data as a rough "scale" to determine whether it is necessary to examine your own x-ray photographic chemicals in detail.

The project team is working under the US Environmental Protection Agency's pollution prevention subsidy in IX area. Collaborators include over 100 participating dental clinics around San Francisco and the California Dental Association staff. San Francisco, the city of Richmond and Palo Alto, Central Peninsula Dental Association, San Francisco Dental Association, Joint Health Zone, University of Nevada, Reno

The purpose of this project is to identify chemical substances used by dental experts for radiography, infection control and repair work, to clarify and quantify their characteristics.

In order to achieve these goals, the project team distributed surveys and interviewed the dental office in the San Francisco Bay Area. The results of this investigation are shown in the datasheet and other materials on this website.

Our data sheet belongs to the public domain. As long as the dental pollution prevention program and this website are quoted as sources of information, you are free to copy and use them.

BRONE Marc first introduced a dental implant in the 1960's. Dental implants are made to replace missing teeth. In addition to the design of the implant, the chemical and physical properties (the composition and properties of the implant surface and its microstructure) determine the factors that influence the implant treatment. Many criteria such as strength, biocompatibility, toughness, abrasion resistance, corrosion resistance and destruction must be achieved. The material design principle and physical characteristics must be compatible

Dental amalgam is a mixture of liquid (element) mercury and metal consisting of silver, tin, copper powder alloy. Approximately 50% of dental amalgam is elemental mercury. The chemical nature of elemental mercury makes it possible for it to react with silver / copper / tin alloy particles and combine them to form amalgam. Once the dental amalgam is in place, the dentist first dents the tooth to remove caries and then shapes the cavity to place the amalgam filling. Then, under appropriate safety conditions, the dentist mixes the powder alloy with liquid mercury to form an amalgam putty. (As shown, these components are supplied to the dentist in capsule form.) The softened amalgam putty is placed and molded in a prepared cavity where it quickly solidifies to a solid fill .