Chemical Basics of Dental Materials

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Topic

The course deals with the deepening of the acquired chemical knowledge, with a detailed discussion of issues of outstanding importance for dental materials science. Our goal is to develop a good and stable basic chemistry knowledge relevant to clinical subjects and dental training.

Lectures

• 12. Test. - Bognár Zita
• 9. Basics of dental polymer chemistry, their classification. - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 10.

  Plastics I.: epoxy resins, polyurethanes, acrylates, heat-resistant plastics.

  - Kiss Bence
• 11.

  Plastics II. silicones, polysulfides, polyethers, agar-agar, PMMA-based materials, composites

  - Kiss Bence
• 8. Halides, sulfur-containing compounds, carboxylic acids, nitrogen-containing compounds. Typical reactions of the compounds. - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 7. Repetition of knowledge of organic chemistry. Clanes, alkenes, alkynes, aromatic compounds, alcohols, oxo-compounds, - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 6. Repetition of organic chemical reactions. Substitution, addition, elimination, condensation, polymerization, polyaddition, polycondensation. - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 5.

  Repetition of inorganic chemical knowledge IV. The alloys. Machining of dental metals, metal processing aids. Metal allergy.

  - Kiss Bence
• 4.

  Repetition of inorganic chemical knowledge III. Electrode potentials, metallurgy. Properties, macro- and micro-structure of dental metals.

  - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 3. Repetition of inorganic chemical knowledge II. Composition and chemical characterization of dental ceramics. Silicate ceramics, oxide ceramics, millable glass-based systems. - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 2. Repetition of inorganic chemical knowledge I. Fundamentals of material structure. Crystalline, amorphous materials. Sample preparation materials, gypsum, resin, oil, silicates, diatomaceous earth, zinc oxide. Fixing materials: cements. - Jakus Péter Balázs
• 1. Repetition of basic concepts: density, solubility, distribution, hygroscopy, melting, source, hardness, machinability, soldering, bending, elasticity, viscosity, homogeneous-heterogeneous, homogenization, mixing. - Jakus Péter Balázs

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

P. Gergely (ed.): Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry for Medical Students, latest edition, Univ. Med. School of Debrecen

Veronika Nagy (ed.): Laboratory Experiments in Medical Chemistry, Internet edition, Univ. Med. School of Pécs, 2011

Literature developed by the Department

http://aok.pte.hu/en/egyseg/oktatasianyagok/20

Notes

http://aok.pte.hu/en/egyseg/oktatasianyagok/20

Recommended literature

Hein-Pattison-Arena-Best: Introduction to Chemistry General, Organic, and Biochemistry, latest edition

P. Gergely (ed.): Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry for Medical Students, latest edition, Univ. Med. School of Debrecen

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

2 lectures can be missed

Mid-term exams

Student must be at the class at least 10 lectures; test will be written at the 12nd week. Socrative questions during the lectures

Making up for missed classes

lectures can not be replaced

Exam topics/questions

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Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars