CYTOTOXICITY OF RESIN MODIFIED GLASS IONOMER LUTING AGENTS- AN OVERVIEW

HEGDE M.N.¹, SHABIN S.^2
1Dept. of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Nitte University, Mangalore-575 018, Karnataka, India.
²Dept. of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, A.B. Shetty Memorial Institute of Dental Sciences, Nitte University, Mangalore-575 018, Karnataka, India.

Received : 14-11-2013     Accepted : 18-12-2013     Published : 26-12-2013
Volume : 2     Issue : 1       Pages : 30 - 32
J Pathol Res 2.1 (2013):30-32
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.9735/0976-8068.2.1.30-32

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Resin Modified glass ionomer luting agents has attained attention in the past few years due to their increased physical and mechanical properties when compared to conventional glassionomer luting agents. In the recent years, cytotoxic evaluation of this particular luting agents have gained increased popularity due to their composition. A few literatures confirmed the cytotoxicity of resin based glass ionomer luting agents by stating that these luting agents contained monomers such as HEMA, Bis- GMA, etc. This article aims to distill an overview of cytotoxicity of resin based glass ionomer luting agents and the factors which leads to it.