European Journal of Prosthodontics and Restorative Dentistry

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Cover Date:
September 2016
Print ISSN:
0965-7452
Electronic ISSN:
2396-8893
Vol:
24
Issue:
3

‘Own-Label’ Versus Branded Commercial Dental Resin Composite Materials: Mechanical And Physical Property Comparisons

ABSTRACT
A majority of dental materials are manufactured by companies who have experience in the field. However, a number of “own label” materials have become available, principally marketed by distributors and other companies with little or no experience in the field. These materials are attractive because of their reduced cost, but they may have no research on which clinicians might base their potential performance. It is therefore the purpose of this work to compare the performance of different batches of a number of “own-label” dental materials with a similar number from manufacturers with experience in the field, using a variety of laboratory test regimes which include filler determination, degree of conversion, flexural strength and flexural modulus, in order to evaluate key material properties. The results indicated that own-label dental resin composites produced similar results to materials from established companies in terms of flexural strength characteristics and degree of conversion. However, a greater batch-to-batch variation in several mechanical and physical properties of the own-label materials was noted.

Keywords
Filler
Degree of Conversion
Own-Label
Private-Label
Resin Composite
Flexural Modulus

doi: 10.1922/EJPRD_01559Shaw08

Article Price
£15.00
Institution Article Price
£
Page Start
122
Page End
129
Authors
Dr Kathryn Shaw, Dr Ricardo Martins, Dr Mohammed Abdul Hadis, Prof. William Palin

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