Nanotechnology in dentistry
<span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Technology has continuously improved along with the complexity of devices. Nowadays, it is widely accepted that micro-technology, </em><span style=&...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universitas Airlangga
2007-06-01
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| Series: | Dental Journal: Majalah Kedokteran Gigi |
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| Online Access: | http://e-journal.unair.ac.id/index.php/MKG/article/view/1057 |
| Summary: | <span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>Technology has continuously improved along with the complexity of devices. Nowadays, it is widely accepted that micro-technology, </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>which is defined as a further reduction in the size of interconnections and components, is achieved by a conventional “top-down” </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>method. We have now moved to a new concept and approach for fabrication from small to bigger building-block elements, which is called </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>nanotechnology. Nanotechnology is the fabrication technology of tiny parts that is achieved by a “bottom-up” method. Nanotechnology </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>has been developed in many areas of life sciences, such as in dentistry. This presentation provides some examples that illustrate the </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>progress in technological growth, especially in the nanoscale. In the developments of nanotechnology, we are also concerned in many </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>ways about its ethics and the laws of physics. The expansion in nanotechnology shows that much multidisciplinary research is being </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>done in the nanoscale area. In dentistry, one of the examples is research in dental materials such as nanoleakage types in the use of </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>various adhesives with resin composition. Nanodiagnostics are nanotechnology in applied molecular diagnostics. All these fields have </em><span style="font-family: Tribune-Italic; font-size: 9pt; color: #231f20; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal;"><em>applications in diagnostics and in point-of-care hand-held devices.</em></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> |
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| ISSN: | 1978-3728 2442-9740 |