Abstract
ABSTRACTObjective A systematic review was conducted to analyze Brazilian scientific and technological production related to the dental materials field over the past 50 years.Material and Methods This study followed the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (Prisma) statement. Searches were performed until December 2014 in six databases: MedLine (PubMed), Scopus, LILACS, IBECS, BBO, and the Cochrane Library. Additionally, the Brazilian patent database (INPI - Instituto Nacional de Propriedade Industrial) was screened in order to get an overview of Brazilian technological development in the dental materials field. Two reviewers independently analyzed the documents. Only studies and patents related to dental materials were included in this review. Data regarding the material category, dental specialty, number of documents and patents, filiation countries, and the number of citations were tabulated and analyzed in Microsoft Office Excel (Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington, United States).Results A total of 115,806 studies and 53 patents were related to dental materials and were included in this review. Brazil had 8% affiliation in studies related to dental materials, and the majority of the papers published were related to dental implants (1,137 papers), synthetic resins (681 papers), dental cements (440 papers), dental alloys (392 papers) and dental adhesives (361 papers). The Brazilian technological development with patented dental materials was smaller than the scientific production. The most patented type of material was dental alloys (11 patents), followed by dental implants (8 patents) and composite resins (7 patents).Conclusions Dental materials science has had a substantial number of records, demonstrating an important presence in scientific and technological development of dentistry. In addition, it is important to approximate the relationship between academia and industry to expand the technological development in countries such as Brazil.
Highlights
A wide variety of materials have been used to replace dental substrates for centuries such as animal or human teeth, bones, ivory, shells, and ceramics4
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Summary
A wide variety of materials have been used to replace dental substrates for centuries such as animal or human teeth, bones, ivory, shells, and ceramics. Dental materials science focused on synthetic restorative materials. A lot of innovations have produced new methods, devices, technologies, and products in different areas of dentistry, especially for the treatment of dental pathologies and the replacement of the dental structure. GHQWDO PDWHULDOV FDQ EH FODVVL¿HG DV SUHYHQWLYH restorative or accessory materials. Temporary restorative materials are a subcategory of restorative that include products used for dental restorations and devices that not intended to be used for moderate or long periods of time such as some dental cements (e.g., conventional glass ionomer cements or zinc oxide eugenol cement). Accessory materials are substances or products used as adjuvants in dental procedures such as dental impression materials, dental alloys and acrylic resins
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