Background A sizable increase in the outbreak of tooth attrition and especially dental erosion has been observed. Detection of tooth wear, proper prevention, and effective intervention in the early stage will avoid the adverse effect on teeth performance and elegance. Thus, the current study aimed to determine the level of awareness of senior dental students (general dentists) about the preval...

Glass fiber reinforced plastic composite materials are finding increased applications due to their excellent properties. Fiber reinforced plastic (FRP) composite materials comprise soft matrix and fiber elements. This article presents the tribological aspects of glass fiber reinforced plastic composites. The wear test is carried out for FRP in a pin-on-roller wear tester. The wear rate obtained...

Wear of the surface is the major problem of all materials. This wear can be of many types and there can be several methods of reducing wear. Coating on the surface of material is one of them. On M.S substrate, thermal spray coating is done using Detonation spray gun and coating powders used is a mixture of oxides (Al2O3-13TiO2). The thermal-sprayed coatings are characterized by SEM, EDS analyse...

The presence of oxygen in the environment in which a steel sliding system operates will promote a mild form of wear with wear debris consisting mainly of iron oxides. Of the oxidation-dominated mechanisms, mild-oxidational wear (the prefix describes the extent of oxidation and not the wear rate) has been most extensively investigated. In this paper, examples will be used to show that the wear-m...

.................................................................................................................... iv 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................. 1 2. Theory/Methodology for Wear in Prosthetic Implants ................................................ 3 2.1 Wear Mechanisms ..........

OBJECTIVE To evaluate mechanical and esthetic Properties of two commercially available orthodontic sealants: Opal(®)Seal (OS) and L.E.D. Pro Seal (PS). MATERIALS AND METHODS Discs of each sealant were prepared to test the following properties: Micro hardness, wear resistance and color stability. Samples were randomly selected after the wear test for SEM imaging to analyze surface morphology. ...

OBJECTIVES Third-body wear is believed to be one trigger for adverse results with metal-on-metal (MOM) bearings. Impingement and subluxation may release metal particles from MOM replacements. We therefore challenged MOM bearings with relevant debris types of cobalt-chrome alloy (CoCr), titanium alloy (Ti6Al4V) and polymethylmethacrylate bone cement (PMMA). METHODS Cement flakes (PMMA), CoCr a...

The objective of this study was to examine total knee polyethylene inserts from in vitro simulation to evaluate and display-using a 3D optical scanner-wear patterns and wear rates of inserts exposed to wear by means of simulators. Various sets of tibial inserts have been reconstructed by using optical scanners. With this in mind, the wear behavior of fixed and mobile bearing polyethylene knee c...