TAGS: Acrylic Adhesives
Shofu, Sun Medical and Mitsui Chemicals announced that Shofu Dental Brasil Comercio de Produtos Odontologicos (Shofu Brasil), a sales subsidiary of Shofu, launched Brazilian sales of Sun Medical’s Super-Bond™ dental adhesive.
Suitable for Wide Range of Dental Applications
Employing 4-methacryloxyethyl trimellitate anhydride (4-META) as a dispersion-aiding monomer and tributylborane (TBB) as a polymerization initiator, Super-Bond™ is an acrylic resin cement made for use as a dental adhesive. It is referred to in academic literature as a 4-META/MMA-TBB resin. Super-Bond™ offers good adhesive properties and ample track record of effectiveness.
Super-Bond™ finds use in a wide range of applications, including stabilizing mobile teeth, forming direct resin-bonded bridges, and enabling the adhesion of brackets and ceramic prostheses.
Offers Good Adhesive Strength & Durability
Super-Bond™ is made up of a polymerization initiator, a liquid and a polymer powder, and exhibits adhesion to tooth material (enamel/dentin), dental alloys and ceramics alike. The product’s mechanism sees Catalyst V, which has TBB as its main component, react with water and oxygen to serve as a polymerization initiator. Super-Bond™ is especially notable for its adhesion to tooth material, which is difficult to keep completely dry: since hardening begins at the adhesive interface, the product is able to exhibit better adhesive strength and adhesive durability here than conventional resin cements.
Super-Bond™ received pharmaceutical approval in Brazil, where the dentistry market looks set for growth going forward.
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We are honored to announce the Brazilian launch of Super-Bond™. Based on its clinical results, we believe that sales of the product will aid dental treatment in Brazil, where minimally invasive surgery has been on the rise,” said president Harashima Tomomi of Shofu Brasil.
Source: Mitsui Chemicals