Spielman, Andrew I. and Forrai, Judit (2023) History of bees wax in dentistry. KALEIDOSCOPE: MŰVELŐDÉS- TUDOMÁNY- ÉS ORVOSTÖRTÉNETI FOLYÓIRAT, 13 (27). pp. 331-332. ISSN 2062-2597
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Abstract
Wax is the oldest dental material still in use today. Chemically, wax is an ester containing a long-chain alcohol and a long-chain fatty acid. Today, dental waxes are a mixture of animal, vegetable, and mineral origin, as well as dyes, oils, fats, gums, and resins; the later components change the wax’s physical properties such as melting range, fluidity, ductility, thermal expansion or contraction, and distortion with time. Each component is added to attain the physical properties desirable for a particular application. Natural waxes like carnauba wax are produced from plants; bees make beeswax, while paraffin is derived from minerals.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | wax, beeswax, pattern, modelling, dental material |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World / történelem > D0 History (General) / történelem általában R Medicine / orvostudomány > RK Dentistry / fogászat |
| SWORD Depositor: | MTMT SWORD |
| Depositing User: | MTMT SWORD |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Sep 2025 12:45 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Sep 2025 12:45 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/223616 |
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