DENTAL MATERIALS - 1996 LITERATURE-REVIEW

This critical review of the published literature on dental materials f or the year 1996 has been compiled by the Dental Materials Panel of th e UK. It continues the series of annual reviews started in 1973 and pu blished in the Journal of Dentistry. Emphasis has been placed upon pub lications which report upon the materials science or clinical performa nce of the materials. The review has been divided by accepted material s classifications (fissure sealants, glass polyalkenoate cements, dent ine bonding, dental amalgam, endodontic materials, casting alloys, res in-bonded bridges and ceramo-metallic restorations, ceramics, denture base resins and soft lining materials, impression materials, implants materials. orthodontic materials, biomechanics and image processing, r esin composites and casting investment materials and waxes). Three hun dred and thirteen articles have been reviewed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Scien ce Ltd. All rights reserved.