Abstract: A method of filling and sealing a root canal during an endodontic procedure, the method comprising: a) filling the root canal with a combination comprising: i) an obturator composed at least in part of a chemically-bondable material; and ii) a self-etching adhesive or self-adhesive resin-based cement or sealer; and b) curing the combination to seal the root canal. Also disclosed is a kit for carrying out the method, the kit comprising: a) an obturator composed at least in part of a chemically-bondable material; and b) a self-adhesive resin-based cement or sealer.

Abstract: A dental material comprising (a) at least one curable monomer and/or polymer component, and (b) at least one filler component comprising agglomerated oxide particles having a matrix and a doping component, whereby the matrix contains silicon dioxide and the doping component comprises zirconium dioxide, whereby the agglomerated oxide particles are incorporated into the cured polymer matrix of the dental material and are abraded only in layers together with the polymer matrix of the dental material during an abrasion process and do not chip away as individual, intact particles. Moreover, the cured dental material possesses high transparency.

Abstract: A method for brightening of teeth is described, using a kit with the components A an alkaline, aqueous sodium fluoride solution, containing a gel former, B a dried gel, present in film strips, containing B1 at least one gel former, B2 phosphate or hydrogen phosphate ions, B3 optionally at least one amino acid, B4 optionally fluoride, B5 optionally glycerol, B6 optionally a carboxylic acid or a buffer system for one of the pH values from 4 to 7. C a dried gel, present in film strips, containing C1 at least one gel former, C2 calcium ions, C3 optionally glycerol, as well as preparation of the kit.

Abstract: A method of filling and sealing a root canal during an endodontic procedure involves: a) filling the root canal with a combination of: i) an obturator composed at least in part of a chemically-bondable material; and ii) a self-etching adhesive or self-adhesive resin-based cement or sealer; and b) curing the combination to seal the root canal. Also disclosed is a kit for carrying out the method, the kit having as components: a) an obturator composed at least in part of a chemically-bondable material; and b) a self-adhesive resin-based cement or sealer.

Abstract: Single-use cartridges for the storing and dispensing of dental two-component impression materials have a closable external chamber with a cylinder-shaped external wall, a cylindrical closable internal chamber that is arranged coaxially or eccentric therein, a mixing element including housing and mobile mixer that is to be mounted separately or connected firmly to the external chamber at its inlet end. Either the internal cylindrical chamber is arranged such that it can be rotated and forms the drive shaft for the mobile mixer part of the mixing element, or the drive shaft extends parallel to the central axis through the internal cylindrical chamber or forms the central axis. The content of the chambers can be dispensed by means of conveying means whose axial thrust motions can be controlled independent of each other.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis with which and in which the data records for fabricated teeth are fitted into a virtual model of the oral situation. It is possible to subsequently directly manufacture the denture base or to insert the fabricated teeth in the model.

Abstract: A container (10, 30, 50) is provided for single- or multi-component molding materials. The container has a container body (12, 32, 52) having a constant outer contour in a longitudinal extent of the container (10, 30, 50), a piston (17, 37) movable in the longitudinal direction, and a cover (11, 31) having an outlet opening (13, 33, 53). A volume for a molding material is defined between the piston (17, 37) and the cover (11, 31), the volume being variable in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the container (10, 30, 50). The container distinguishes itself in that the container body (12, 32, 52) is rotatable relative to the outlet opening (13, 33, 53), and the piston (17, 37) thereby pushes out the content of the container (10, 30, 50).

Abstract: Containers that are soluble in liquid methylmethacrylate and contain the PMMA powder fraction of a two-component system made up of PMMA powder component and liquid MMA monomer component are useful as components of packaging of powder/liquid two-component material, such as dental material, investment material for histology or metallography or in veterinary medicine.

Abstract: Temperature and/or irradiation and/or polymerization indicators comprise at least one 1,3-dipole and at least one dipolarophile, the dipole preferably being an ylide from the group of azomethines (sydnones), azomethinylides (munchnones), carbonylylides (isomunchnones), thiocarbonylylides (thioisomunchnones), or 1,3-dithiolylium-4-olates.

Abstract: Compositions containing (A) at least one silane-terminated polyether derivative with a content of polyether groups from 10 to 98% and a content of 1 to 25% terminal groups with the structure —NR1—X—Si(OR2)mR3(3-m)??(I) in which m denotes 1, 2 or 3 R1, R2, R3 independently of each other denote H or a saturated or unsaturated, linear, branched, cyclic or polycyclic hydrocarbon group with 0 to 10 heteroatoms from the group O, N, S and a total of 1 to 30 carbon atoms, X denotes a group with the empirical formula CnH2n, n denotes a whole number ?3, with the stipulation that n>3, if R1 stands for H, (B1) water and (B2) at least one organic or inorganic acid, as well as optional diluents and/or fillers and/or ordinary additives, are suitable for preparation of molding compounds, especially in the dental field.

Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring device of flexible material for the determination of parameters for the production of dental prostheses which combines different functions, including protractor, spacing template, ruler and an option of utilizing a compass-formed modulus shear measuring module to facilitate shearing.

Abstract: The aim of the invention is the improvement of an arrangement for the imaging of surface structures of three-dimensional objects, comprising a device for the optical recording of the surface of at least a partial region of the three-dimensional object from different positions, such that the imaging of the object can be carried out with comparatively little complexity with high reproducible accuracy. According to the invention, the arrangement thus comprises a selection circuit (9), for the selection of a first image section (10) and a subsequent image module (11), in which at least one further image section (12) is digitally recorded.

Abstract: A fracture-resistant denture base material is obtained from an auto-polymerising or cold-polymerising composition containing (A) a liquid monomer component; (B) a powder-shaped component, and (C) at least one initiator or one initiator system for auto- or cold-polymerisation, whereby at least one member of the groups of aliphatic urethane acrylates and aliphatic urethane methacrylates is present in (A) or/and (B); whereby the fracture-resistant material shows, in particular, a fracture toughness of >1.8 MPa*m1/2 and a fracture work of >400 J/m2 after curing, and, preferably also shows a difference in the yellow value, also called b value, of maximally one unit after 8 weeks of storage in fully desalted water at 50° C. Preferably, no synthetic rubber is present.

Abstract: A method for automated manufacture of dentures including providing a digital data set of the individual denture to be produced, a digital separation of the model into dental arch and gingival, producing the dental arch from a ceramic or plastic material using cutting technology, producing the denture base through generative or ablative procedures from predominantly (meth-)acrylate-based plastic materials, connecting the dental arch and gingiva through bonding or joining or a combination of bonding and joining.

Abstract: An agent for protection of tooth surfaces, in conjunction with conventional bleaching methods, by biomimetic deposition of fluorapatite, containing A at least one preformulated 50-1000 ?m thick gel film A, containing A1 at least one gel former, A2 water or a mixture of water and an organic solvent, A3 phosphate or hydrogen phosphate ions, A4 optionally fluoride, A5 optionally at least one amino acid, A6 optionally one carboxylic acid or a buffer system for a pH value from 4 to 7. B at least one 50 ?m to 5 mm thick gel film B, containing B1 at least one gel former, B2 water, B3 calcium ions Ca2±.

Abstract: An applicator for a one-handed operation for storing and applying a dental liquid, including a container for the dental liquid and a tubing for guiding the dental liquid from the container to an applicator tip. The container is made of foil, which can be punctured by a mandrel. The dental liquid is expelled through a displacement plunger, whereby puncturing and expelling are effected through actuating a handle and the container is positioned with respect to the mandrel in suitable manner such that the advancing mechanism that is used to expel the dental liquid from the applicator is also used to puncture or slit open the foil with the mandrel, whereby the container is opened through the same force that is used to dispense the dental liquid and one-handed operability of the applicator is attained not only when the dental liquid is dispensed, but also when the container is being opened.

Abstract: For producing a mother matrix mould of a full or partial dental prosthesis or of a temporary crown or bridge or of a permanent crown or bridge, the data of a digitalised virtual model reflecting the status of the jaw is used to generate a data set of the digital tooth set-up of the full or partial dental prosthesis or of the temporary crown or bridge or of the permanent crown or bridge, based on which a rapid manufacturing or rapid prototyping method is used to produce a functional model of the full or partial dental prosthesis or of the temporary crown or bridge or of the permanent crown or bridge that is then invested in a curable elastic impression material from which the mother matrix mould is produced after curing the elastic impression material.

Abstract: Dental material is provided with at least one antimicrobial active substance that is applied onto inorganic particles or organic polymer beads and is bound non-covalently to the particles or polymer beads. This results in a dental material on which plaque colonisation is prevented.

Abstract: Denture formed from polymerizable dental material formed of a liquid component containing A) at least one liquid methyl methacrylate monomer component, B) at least one acrylated or methacrylated butadiene oligomer or acrylated or methacrylated butadiene polymer and/or an acrylated or methacrylated acrylonitrile-butadiene oligomer or acrylated or methacrylated acrylonitrile-butadiene polymer, and optionally a powder component containing a polymer powder or a bead polymer based on methacrylate.