A wide range of dental research has been conducted, such as evaluating dental ceramic materials for crown restoration on teeth and testing dentine analog materials in laboratory-based mechanical and fatigue tests. However, collecting and using extracted human teeth is becoming increasingly difficult, given concerns about COVID-19, size-standardization issues, and time constraints.
A research team led by Dr. James Tsoi, Associate Professor in Dental Materials Science from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), together with colleagues from Wuhan University, China, and Drexel University, USA, investigated new elliptical frustums of fiber-reinforced composite materials and compared their properties to those of human dentine. The study entitled “Which dentine analog material can replace human dentine for the crown fatigue test?” has been published online in Dental Materials….