Dental Compositions Using Organogelators for Flowability and Strength
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current dental materials, particularly polymerizable resins, lack versatility and performance in terms of flowability, packability, and self-supporting properties, which limits their application in dental restoratives and prostheses, requiring additional materials with improved mechanical properties and handling characteristics.
Innovation Solution
Development of hardenable dental compositions incorporating organogelators and polymerizable components with crystalline or filler materials, enabling flowable, packable, and self-supporting properties, allowing for customized fitting and hardening without additional veneering materials, using photopolymerization or chemical curing mechanisms.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional polymerizable resins are used, then the material can be processed, but it lacks versatility and performance in flowability, packability, and self-supporting properties
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple materials (polymerizable resin, organogelator, crystalline material, and filler material) into a composite dental composition that achieves superior flowability, packability, and self-supporting properties simultaneously, resolving the contradiction between versatility and performance
2Strength
If additional veneering materials are used to achieve desired properties, then mechanical properties can be improved, but the device complexity and number of steps increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates a single multi-functional dental composition that simultaneously provides structural integrity, flowability, packability, and self-supporting properties, eliminating the need for separate veneering materials and reducing overall complexity
3Ease of operation
If the composition is made flowable with lower viscosity, then it can be dispensed from narrow-tip syringe, but the filler loading must be reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses organogelators to fundamentally change the rheological parameters of the composition, enabling high filler loading while maintaining flowability through unique gel structure formation that does not rely on traditional viscosity reduction
4Ease of operation
If the composition is made packable with higher viscosity, then handling characteristics improve, but the material becomes more viscous than standard composites
Solution Approach 1:
The patent incorporates crystalline materials that undergo phase transitions, allowing the composition to exhibit packable characteristics at room temperature while maintaining appropriate flow properties during placement, resolving the viscosity contradiction
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The compositions provide enhanced mechanical properties, such as flexural strength and compressive strength, enabling their use in various dental applications, including crowns, bridges, and orthodontic adhesives, with improved handling and customization capabilities.
Implementation Method 1
an organogelator in an amount of at least 0.4 wt-%, based on the total weight of the organogelator plus polymerizable component
Implementation Method 2
forming a non-flowable gel that exhibits a thermally reversible transition between the liquid state and the gel state when the temperature is varied above or below the gel point
Implementation Method 3
a crystalline material and/or filler material comprising nanoscopic particles
Implementation Method 4
using photopolymerization or chemical curing mechanisms
Implementation Method 5
a crystalline material and/or filler material comprising nanoscopic particles
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AI summary
A hardenable dental composition that includes a polymerizable component and an organogelator.