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    Thermal diffusivity is more important than thermal conductivity for dental materials. Thermal diffusivity determines how quickly heat can pass through a material, while conductivity only determines how much heat can pass through. For amalgam fillings, high conductivity causes pulp shock, but controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents extreme heat changes. Similarly, controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents heat changes from reaching soft tissues for metallic dentures. A dull porcelain crown can appear unnatural due to factors like using a low value shade that appears too grey, or a mismatch with the value of an underlying metal base or neighboring teeth.

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    Thermal diffusivity is more important than thermal conductivity for dental materials. Thermal diffusivity determines how quickly heat can pass through a material, while conductivity only determines how much heat can pass through. For amalgam fillings, high conductivity causes pulp shock, but controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents extreme heat changes. Similarly, controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents heat changes from reaching soft tissues for metallic dentures. A dull porcelain crown can appear unnatural due to factors like using a low value shade that appears too grey, or a mismatch with the value of an underlying metal base or neighboring teeth.

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    Thermal diffusivity is more important than thermal conductivity for dental materials. Thermal diffusivity determines how quickly heat can pass through a material, while conductivity only determines how much heat can pass through. For amalgam fillings, high conductivity causes pulp shock, but controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents extreme heat changes. Similarly, controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents heat changes from reaching soft tissues for metallic dentures. A dull porcelain crown can appear unnatural due to factors like using a low value shade that appears too grey, or a mismatch with the value of an underlying metal base or neighboring teeth.

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    Thermal diffusivity is more important than thermal conductivity for dental materials. Thermal diffusivity determines how quickly heat can pass through a material, while conductivity only determines how much heat can pass through. For amalgam fillings, high conductivity causes pulp shock, but controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents extreme heat changes. Similarly, controlling diffusivity through thickness prevents heat changes from reaching soft tissues for metallic dentures. A dull porcelain crown can appear unnatural due to factors like using a low value shade that appears too grey, or a mismatch with the value of an underlying metal base or neighboring teeth.

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    Dental Materials
    Group 6B
    1) Which is more important Thermal Conductivity, or Thermal Diffusivity of a material?
    The thermal diffusivity of a material is more important than its thermal conductivity. This can
    be supported by investigating a material like amalgam and metallic dentures. Amalgam,
    which is the most popular metallic filling material, has high thermal conductivity. This means,
    that it is able to transfer large amounts of heat through a surface area in a short amount of
    time. This property is an inevitable obstacle in the use of amalgam as a filling material, since
    it can cause pulp shock if the cavity is made too close to the pulp. This does not however,
    prevent its use as a filling material because while its thermal conductivity cannot be changed,
    regulating the thermal diffusivity of the amalgam prevents extreme thermal changes to be
    transmitted to the pulp. Thermal diffusivity, which is the rate of heat diffusion through a
    material, can be decreased by the addition of an insulating base of proper thickness between
    the pulp and the highly conductive amalgam filling due to its dependence on thickness of a
    material. This provides an obstacle for the transmission of extreme thermal changes to the
    pulp beneath, while the amalgam still retains its property of being a highly conductive
    material. Also, if a very thick conducting material is used in metallic dentures, it decreases its
    thermal diffusivity making the time it takes for thermal changes to reach the soft tissues too
    long. So regulating thermal diffusivity is more important.

    2) A dull porcelain crown can give a dull and unnatural appearance. Explain.
    Many factors could cause a dull or unnatural appearance of a prosthetic crown, all of which
    are optical factors. Perhaps the most important factor would be the value of the crown colour
    since it plays a part in the vitality of the tooth. The value represents the amount of greyness
    within an object. Dead teeth appear greyer or darker while vital teeth appear brighter and
    more translucent. If a low value crown shade is used it could give a dull and unnatural
    appearance to the tooth. Also, if the crown is fixed on a metal base, the value must be very
    accurate with the correct amount of translucency due to the opaque nature of the metal.
    Mismatching values could cause the metal base to be obvious from the external surface of the
    porcelain crown giving the same dull and unnatural appearance. The value of the porcelain
    crown must be compared to the next neighbouring sound tooth in the patients mouth, and it is
    very important that they are equal, since the hue and the chroma of the tooth could both match
    the existing colour, yet the tooth could appear to be non-vital and unnatural due to the
    mismatching of the value.

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