Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Composite products

Bulk Fill
  • Low viscosity
  1. SureFil SDR (recommended)
  2. Venus Bulk Flow
  3. Filtek Bulk Fill
  4. Voco x-tra base (ADA best)
  • High viscosity
  1. Kerr SonicFill
  2. Dentsply QuiXX (ADA best)
  3. Parkell HyperFil  (Dual-Cure)
  4. Pentron Alert (poor performance ADA test)
  5. Tetric EvoCeram Bulk Fill (recommended)
  6. Voco x-tra fill (ADA best)
Hybrid Larger, irregular, filler particle sizes that help enhance the overall strength along with being more filled than Microfills.  Universal but lose shine and doesn't polish well.
  • Charisma
  • Herculite XRV
  • Spectrum TPH
Microhybrids Highly filled with particles of smaller than hybrids but variable in size.  Universal but still not as polishable as microfill
  • Filtek Z-250
  • Venus
  • Tetric Ceram
  • 4 Seasons
  • Miris
  • Point 4
  • Gradia Direct
  • Vit-l-escence
  • Esthet-X

Nanohybrid or Nanofill Resins that have “nanoclusters” or “nanoparticles” that are used as fillers and allow for both strength and polishability.  Universal composite, anterior and posterior.
  • Filtek Supreme XTE (Maintains polish), Filtek Z250 XT, Filtek Supreme Plus
  • IPS Empress Direct and Tetric Evo Ceram
  • Enamel Plus HRi (high refractive index=more like a tooth)
  • Miris 2 and Synergy D6
  • Venus Diamond and Venus Pearl
  • Herculite Ultra and Premise
  • G-aerial and Kalore
  • RefleXions XLS
  • Esthet-X HD
  • Estelite Sigma Quick
  • Grandio
  • Clearfil Majesty Esthetic 
  • Premise
Flowable - low viscosity with filler content around 20-25% less than nonflowable (usually)


Microfill A microfiller of relatively small silicone dioxide particles.  Used in anterior or final layer of anterior because is highly polishable and tends to me more translucent but can not bear stress.
  • Durafil VS
  • Renamel
  • EPIC-TMPT
  • Matrixx
Packable
Bryan Bauer, DDS, FAGD                                                                
630-665-5550                                                                  
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