Environmental influence on behaviour of various structure used in dentistry

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to put in evidence the environmental influence on behaviour of various structure in dentistry being based on the necessity to be conform to the concept of health & environment. The structures of studied materials are both hard and soft, natural and synthetic and the environment simulated factors are mainly heavy metals and fluoride ions. The used techniques in the paper are related to investigation of composition, structure, morphology, electrochemical properties, and hydrophilic/hydrophobic balance at interface with environment. With these methods one intend to establish new properties for some dental biomaterials and propose original correlations between the influences of some environmental factors and dental health, as well as some measures and some prophylactic products recommended in the affected areas.