A clinical guide to applied dental materials / Stephen J. Bonsor, Gavin J. Pearson ; [foreword by Trevor Burke].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General principles -- Dental materials in the oral environment -- Clinical manipulation of materials -- Biological effects and safety aspects of dental materials -- The role of the manufacturer -- Control and use of materials in practice -- Direct dental materials -- Dental amalgam -- The tooth coloured restorative materials -- Resin based composites -- Compomers -- Glass ionomer cements -- Resin modified glass ionomer cements -- Bonding systems -- Other dental cements -- Materials used in endodontics -- Materials used with indirect techniques -- Materials used in temporisation -- Impression materials -- Waxes and occlusal registration materials -- Other surgery materials -- Preventive and periodontal materials, implants and biomaterials -- Dental bleaching systems -- Cutting instruments -- Laboratory materials -- Model and investment materials -- Alloys used in dentistry -- Dental ceramics -- Polymers in prosthodontics.