Abstract
Dental nanocomposites are promoted as most technologically advanced filling materials. Anthocyanin based food colorants are one of the main causes for the color changes of the dental composite materials. We studied whether the exposure of a nanocomposite material to anthocyanin food colorants triggers significant changes in the base color. Water immersions have a minimal effect on the color of samples. Both anthocyanin solutions have visible staining effect (ΔE>3,7). Other properties of testing solutions like acidity and alcohol content are known to generate color changes. Further research is needed to quantify the combined effect (synergic, antagonist or cumulative) of anthocyanin colorants..
Keywords
Anthocyanin, Dental nanocomposite, Color change.
Citation
M. IONAŞ, S. OANCEA, M. E. BADEA, Assessment of the coloring capacity of the anthocyanin extract on nanocomposite dental materials, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 8, 11-12, November-December 2014, pp.1213-1217 (2014).
Submitted at: Sept. 26, 2014
Accepted at: Nov. 13, 2014