• Dental cements have a wide range of dental and orthodontic applications. Common uses include temporary restoration of teeth, cavity linings to provide...
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    exposed tooth with a crown. A crown is typically bonded to the tooth by dental cement. They can be made from various materials, which are usually fabricated...
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    implant with an abutment screw. A crown (the dental prosthesis) is then connected to the abutment with dental cement, a small screw, or fused with the abutment...
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  • tooth preparation. Materials used may be gold, amalgam, dental composites, glass ionomer cement, or porcelain, among others. Preparations may be intracoronal...
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  • explorer and then sealing the pits and fissures with dental cement, such as oxyphosphate cement.[citation needed] Bödecker then later became an advocator...
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    banded and then brackets will be added. A bracket will be applied with dental cement, and then cured with light until hardened. This process usually takes...
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    A glass ionomer cement (GIC) is a dental restorative material used in dentistry as a filling material and luting cement, including for orthodontic bracket...
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  • Dental cements are used most often to bond indirect restorations such as crowns to the natural tooth surface. Examples include: Zinc oxide cement—self...
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    Dental composite resins (better referred to as "resin-based composites" or simply "filled resins") are dental cements made of synthetic resins. Synthetic...
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    Luting agent (category Dental materials)
    A luting agent is a dental cement connecting the underlying tooth structure to a fixed prosthesis. To lute means to glue two different structures together...
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