tailieunhanh - Dental Clinics of North America Vol 51 (2007) 573–589

Tham khảo sách 'dental clinics of north america vol 51 (2007) 573–589', y tế - sức khoẻ, y học thường thức phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | ELSEVIER SAUNDERS THE DENTAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA Dent Clin N Am 51 2007 573-589 Posterior Amalgam Restorations Usage Regulation and Longevity Richard J. Mitchell PhDa Mari Koike DDS PhDb Toru Okabe PhDb Division of Restorative Dentistry Department of Oral Health Practice College of Dentistry University of Kentucky D641 Medical Center 800 Rose Street Lexington KY 40536-0297 USA bDepartment of Biomaterials Science Baylor College of Dentistry The Texas A M University System Health Science Center 3302 Gaston Avenue Dallas TX 75246-2098 USA This article is a review of the literature on posterior amalgam restorations published during the period between 1996 and 2006. During this period research interest on amalgam significantly declined. A Medline search of articles with amalgam in the title dental anywhere and the subject dentistry yielded 1054 citations of all dental citations between 1986 and 1995 but only 553 citations of all dental citations between 1996 and 2005. During the latter period there were only two comprehensive reviews of the literature on dental amalgam and both appeared early in the period 1 2 . Several articles referred to amalgam in the context of reviewing the advantages and disadvantages of alternative restorative materials however 3-7 . Because there have been many recent reviews of amalgam biocompatibility 8-19 and the effects amalgam waste on the environment 20-22 this article focuses solely on amalgam restorations. Similarly because recent reviews have focused on dental amalgam in primary teeth 23 24 the focus of this article is on amalgam in permanent teeth. Because of space limitations an update on the metallurgical physical and mechanical properties of dental amalgam must await another venue. The authors thank the National Institute of Dental Research of the US National Institutes of Health for more than two decades of support for the authors research and that of other investigators who have greatly expanded our knowledge of .