Titanium dioxide and modified titanium dioxide by silver nanoparticles as an anti biofilm filler content for composite resins

A broad-spectrum antimicrobial composite resin materials is desired for dentistry, especially because composite resin materials accumulate more biofilm than other restorative materials and the current dental restorative materials did not have antimicrobial materials in the composition [1,2]. The high biofilm accumulation by composite resin restoration can contributes to the progress of secondary caries [3]. Because of that, researchers have focused their studies on nanostructured materials with antimicrobial potential, such as silver [4,5], zinc oxide [6,7], titanium dioxide [8,9], hydroxyapatite and chlorhexidine, in order to fabricate a novel resin based restorative material.
Source: Dental Materials - Category: Materials Science Authors: Source Type: research