THE EVALUATION OF DENTAL MATERIALS BIOCOMPATIBILITY

In dentistry materials with different content and features are produced and used in dental practice. during the application, most of these materials are in contact with dental hard tissues, soft tissues and oral liquids (e.g. saliva, gingival crevicular fluid). thus, in the selection of new material, besides the mechanical and physical properties also biological characteristics must be taken care. various tests are used to determine the biocompatibility of materials. the common approach when testing the biological behavior of materials is to start with simple in vitro tests mostly based on cell cultures. if these experiments and investigations of a material’s efficiency deliver promising findings, then more comprehensive studies on experimental animals and usage tests (in vivo evaluation) will be performed. the aim of this rewiev was to evaluate the test methods for the biocompatibility of dental materials.