Galvanic Corrosion Behavior of Dental Alloys

Abstract

There is a wide variety of dental alloys, ranging from nearly pure gold and conventional gold-based alloys to alloys based on silver, palladium, nickel, cobalt, iron, titanium, tin, and other metals (Table 1). The types of dental alloys have increased significantly since 1980s in order to change the market price of gold and palladium. Although gold alloys are the mate‐ rials of choice in this area because of their high mechanical properties, good corrosion resist‐ ance and excellent biocompatibility, their price still poses the essential challenge to dentistry. So that, alternative materials such as Ag-Pd alloys, Co-Cr alloys and Ti alloys have been introduced into dentistry [1,2].