Description

This book of “An Understanding of Modern Dental Materials Science” discusses and explains the science of clinical and laboratory dental materials. It will help you understand the properties, limitations and safe usage of different materials, and how to navigate this rapidly changing field to choose the most appropriate materials for your patients. The textbook discusses current data on the physical and chemical characteristics, properties and methods of application of materials used in therapeutic and orthopaedic dentistry. The manual reflects modern classifications of dental materials, information about their properties, composition, and mechanisms of interaction of components. Each section of the manual contains test tasks. The proposed structure of the manual helps to highlight the main aspects of the materials studied, organize and concretize the educational process. This book is written in an engaging and accessible way, and featuring updated images and photographs as well as "clinical relevance" highlights, this book is perfectly tailored to the needs of the busy student of dentistry or dental therapy. This is a quick guide to learn the essentials of dental materials. A Pocket Guide describes how to recognize, select, and mix the most widely used materials in modern dentistry.