Abstract: A paste-type dental material is filled from an opening portion of a cartridge into a cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge along a kneading surface, on which the paste-type dental material is kneaded, with the opening portion being inclined. The piston is placed on the kneading surface with a circular end surface of the piston contacting the kneading surface. The piston is inserted into the cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge closer to the piston located on the kneading surface such that a piston-side tapered surface or the piston-side curved surface of the piston is fitted into the opening portion, and thereafter moving the one of the two ends of the cylindrical portion toward the kneading surface.

Abstract: A dental mill blank having a multi-layer structure has been required to improve the reproducibility of a color tone of the natural tooth in a dental crown restoration cut by CAD/CAM technique. Especially, a reproduction of the color tone of a cavity or a groove is required in a dental crown form of the molar tooth. The present disclosure provides a dental mill blank having three or more layers wherein a color of a 30% position layer which includes a 30% position which is a position spaced from a surface of the dental mill blank of a W layer-side by 30% satisfies a specified relational expression, and a contrast ratio of the 30% position layer is within a range of the contrast ratio of the D layer×(0.70 to 1.00).

Abstract: A cartridge fitting portion of a cylindrical syringe made of a resin includes an end surface opening portion, a continuous opening portion continuous with the end surface opening portion, opened in a radial direction, and extending in an extending direction, and a recess portion configured to communicate with the end surface opening portion, the continuous opening portion, and an internal passage in a cylindrical body. The recess portion includes a flange fitting recess to be fitted with a flange portion of a cartridge, and a cylindrical portion fitting recess that communicates with the flange fitting recess and is fitted with a part of the cylindrical portion. A wall portion surrounding the cylindrical portion fitting recess of the cartridge fitting portion is configured to warp into snap engagement with the part of the cylindrical portion when the part of the cylindrical portion is inserted from the continuous opening portion.

Abstract: Provided is a dental composition comprising a first largest group of particles and resin matrix, wherein the first largest group consists of particles whose particle size ranges from 0.7 to 1.5 times the representative particle size of the first largest fraction in a population of particles included in the composition whose particle size ranges from 110 to 1000 ?m; and wherein the ratio of the number of particles included in the first largest group to the number of particles whose particle size ranges from 0.5 to 2.0 times the representative particle size of the first largest fraction is equal to or more than 0.8.

Abstract: To provide a mill blank for dental CAD/CAM containing a ceramic material for preparing a dental restoration by being installed in a CAD/CAM device, wherein, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM comprises a ceramic portion in which a dental restoration is cut out and a resin portion which joins with a CAD/CAM device, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has a columnar shape, the resin portion is provided at a side surface of the ceramic portion and has a cylindrical shape or a belt shape, a ceramic portion side of the resin portion contacts with the side surface of the ceramic portion, the ceramic portion has a columnar shape, the ceramic portion has a protrusion part, an upper surface and a bottom surface of the columnar shape of the ceramic portion are parallel to each other, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has at least two recesses which includes a first recess and a second recess in a circumference portion, the first recess and the second recess respectively include a first surface which is parallel to the upp

Abstract: To provide a mill blank for dental CAD/CAM for preparing a dental restoration by being installed in a CAD/CAM device, wherein, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has a columnar shape, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has at least two recesses which includes a first recess opening to an upper surface of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM and a second recess opening to a bottom surface of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM and at least one notched portion in a circumference portion, the first recess and the second recess respectively include a first surface which is parallel to the upper surface and the bottom surface and a second surface which is a circumferential face concentric with the circumferential face of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM and is vertical to the first surface, and the notched portion is composed of a surface parallel to the center axis of the columnar shape of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM and contacts with the second surface.

Abstract: To provide a dental temporary calcined body including an inside colored by a coloring material wherein, the inside of the dental temporary calcined body is colored by a coloring liquid containing the coloring material and a penetrant containing a permeating liquid.

Abstract: To provide a mill blank for dental CAD/CAM for preparing a dental restoration by being installed in a CAD/CAM device, wherein, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has a substantially columnar shape, the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM has at least one recess in a circumference portion, the recess does not extend over the whole of the circumference portion of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM, and the recess of the mill blank for dental CAD/CAM is to be engaged with the CAD/CAM device.

Abstract: A composite material including silanated filler and mixed polymerizable monomer, having a stable pasty property which keeps well and has a consistent usability. A composite material containing a silanated filler, a polymerizable monomer, and a polymerization initiator, and may be produced by a process which includes a mixed polymerizable monomer preparing step, a silanation step, a silanated filler preserving step, a composite material preparing step, a composite material preserving step, a composite material filling step, and a small quantity preserving container preserving step.

Abstract: A composite material including silanated filler and mixed polymerizable monomer, having a stable pasty property which keeps well and has a consistent usability. A composite material containing a silanated filler, a polymerizable monomer, and a polymerization initiator, and may be produced by a process which includes a mixed polymerizable monomer preparing step, a silanation step, a silanated filler preserving step, a composite material preparing step, a composite material preserving step, a composite material filling step, and a small quantity preserving container preserving step.

Abstract: A dental restoration producing system of producing a dental restoration from a dental mill blank with one or more through-holes according to one embodiment, when the dental restoration includes no through-hole of the dental restoration, the superposed data generating section generates a superposed data in which at least one through-hole of the dental mill blank is not superposed with the dental restoration, when the dental restoration includes a through-hole of the dental restoration, the superposed data generating section generates a superposed data in which at least one through-hole of the dental mill blank is not superposed with the dental restoration and the through-hole of the dental restoration, or a superposed data in which at least one through-hole of the dental mill blank is included in the through-hole of the dental restoration which is larger than the at least one through-hole of the dental mill blank.

Abstract: In color reproduction for a dental restorative material, in order to achieve a color that closely matches the color of the natural tooth, one technique that is used is to form a mill blank by laminating layers of materials having different colors. However, misidentification of layers frequently occurs. The present invention is a dental mill blank having a plurality of layers and the dental mill blank has a visual identifying portion by which the plurality of layers are visually identifiable. The visual identifying portion may be provided by color or by structure. Providing the visual identifying portion by color refers to coloring the surface of a layer of the dental mill blank and providing the visual identifying portion by structure refers to forming microscopic or macroscopic irregularities in the entire periphery or part of a layer surface.

Abstract: A paste-type dental material is filled from an opening portion of a cartridge into a cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge along a kneading surface, on which the paste-type dental material is kneaded, with the opening portion being inclined. The piston is placed on the kneading surface with a circular end surface of the piston contacting the kneading surface. The piston is inserted into the cylindrical portion by moving the opening portion of the cylindrical portion of the cartridge closer to the piston located on the kneading surface such that a piston-side tapered surface or the piston-side curved surface of the piston is fitted into the opening portion, and thereafter moving the one of the two ends of the cylindrical portion toward the kneading surface.

Abstract: An applicator that is less expensive than those according to the related art and in which a plunger does not easily slip out of a cylindrical syringe. A cylindrical syringe and a plunger are each molded from a resin material. A resistance structure is provided between the inner peripheral surface of the cylindrical syringe and the outer peripheral surface of a pressing portion of the plunger. The resistance structure is configured to act as resistance to movement of the pressing portion when the pressing portion is moved toward a cartridge fitting portion beyond a predetermined position and to movement of the pressing portion when the pressing portion is moved from the side of the cartridge fitting portion toward an end of the cylindrical syringe opposite to the cartridge fitting portion beyond the predetermined position.

Abstract: A cartridge in which a pipe can be retained without increasing the number of components or suppressing pushing-out of a content. A length L over which the outer peripheral surface of a pipe and the inner peripheral surface of a through hole contact each other when the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole, an average outside diameter R of the pipe in the range of the length L over which the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole, and an average inside diameter N of the through hole in the range of the length L are determined to meet: L×R×?×(1?N/R)×3.3?W and 0.01<(1?N/R)<0.1, wherein the maximum pushing load of the piston is defined as W and a grasping force to hold the pipe as the pipe is press-fitted into the through hole is defined as 1?N/R.

Abstract: A cartridge fitting portion of a cylindrical syringe made of a resin includes an end surface opening portion, a continuous opening portion continuous with the end surface opening portion, opened in a radial direction, and extending in an extending direction, and a recess portion configured to communicate with the end surface opening portion, the continuous opening portion, and an internal passage in a cylindrical body. The recess portion includes a flange fitting recess to be fitted with a flange portion of a cartridge, and a cylindrical portion fitting recess that communicates with the flange fitting recess and is fitted with a part of the cylindrical portion. A wall portion surrounding the cylindrical portion fitting recess of the cartridge fitting portion is configured to warp into snap engagement with the part of the cylindrical portion when the part of the cylindrical portion is inserted from the continuous opening portion.

Abstract: An occlusal wear evaluation apparatus capable of quantitatively evaluating an occlusal wear of a used denture reads three dimensional data of the denture before use and three dimensional data of the denture after use. The apparatus calculates a difference in a set value of an articulator allowing a maxillary dental arch and a mandibular dental arch of the denture to occlude between the denture before use and the denture after use, by way of simulating movements of a jaw in the articulator with the three dimensional data of the denture before use and the three dimensional data of the denture after use, and indicates the calculated difference.

Abstract: The compression molded tooth used for practicing dental cutting treatment of the present invention comprises a composition containing a powder or powders of saccharide, polysaccharide, protein, and/or glycoprotein each having a particle size of 1 to 100 ?m.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a deagglomerated glass filler for sustained ion release for imparting ion sustained-release property to a dental material for use in the dental field. The dental material means a material for use in filling, prosthetic repair, temporary sealing, temporary bonding, preparation of a prosthetic appliance, adhesion/luting, pit and fissure sealing, or the like in a dental treatment. A glass filler for sustained ion release that sufficiently continuously releases a metal ion present in a glass composition as compared with a conventional glass filler for sustained ion release has been demanded in the field of a dental material. Such an object is achieved by a glass filler for sustained ion release that is obtained by performing a silane compound treatment step and an acidic polymer treatment step and that is controlled to satisfy a specific D50 particle size relationship in each of the steps.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a polymerization catalyst having storage stability under an oral cavity environment. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a dental material cured by use of the present polymerization catalyst. The polymerization catalyst for use in the dental material is achieved with including 1-cyclohexyl-5-propylbarbituric acid and trioctylmethylammonium chloride.