No / Glass-ionomer cements (GICs) have been widely used for over forty years, because of their desirable properties in
dentistry. The most important advantages of the GICs are associated with their ability to release long-term
antimicrobial agents. However, GICs used as restorative materials have still lots of challenges due to their
secondary caries and low mechanical properties. Recent studies showed that the fluoride-releasing activity of
conventional GICs is inadequate for effectual antibacterial conservation in many cases. Therefore, many efforts
have been proposed to modify the antibacterial features of GICs in order to prevent the secondary caries.
Particularly, for achieving this goal GICs were incorporated into various biomaterials possessing antibacterial
activities. The scope of this review is to assess systematically the extant researches addressing the antibacterial
modifications in GICs in order to provide with an authoritative, at the same time in-depth understanding of
controlled antibacterial release in this class of biomaterials. It also gives a whole perspective on the future
developments of GICs and challenges related to antibacterial GICs.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/16997 |
| Date | 31 July 2017 |
| Creators | Hafshejani, T.M., Zamanian, A., Venugopal, J.R., Rezvani, Z., Sefat, Farshid, Saeb, M.R., Vahabi, H., Zarrintaj, P., Mozafari, M. |
| Source Sets | Bradford Scholars |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Article, No full-text in the repository |
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