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Ytterbium (III) Fluoride in Dental Materials
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: Received: 9 October 2023 / Approved: 10 October 2023 / Online: 11 October 2023 (07:31:27 CEST)
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Nicholson, J.W. Ytterbium (III) Fluoride in Dental Materials. Inorganics 2023, 11, 449. Nicholson, J.W. Ytterbium (III) Fluoride in Dental Materials. Inorganics 2023, 11, 449.
Abstract
(1) Background: The compound ytterbium trifluoride is used as a component of several dental materials, and this is reviewed in the current article. (2) Methods: Published articles on this substance were identified from PubMed, and showed that it has been included in a variety of dental restorative materials, including composite resins, glass polyalkenoate cements and calcium trisilicate cements. (3) Results: Ytterbium trifluoride is reported to be insoluble in water. Despite this, its presence is associated with fluoride release from dental materials. There is evidence that it reacts with the components of calcium trisilicate cements to form small amounts of a variety of compounds, including ytterbium oxide, Yb2O3, and calcium-ytterbium fluoride, CaYbF5. In nanoparticulate form, it has been shown to reinforce glass polyalkenoates and it also provides high contrast in X-ray images. (4) Conclusions: Ytterbium trifluoride is a useful component of dental materials, though some of the published findings suggest that there are aspects of its chemistry which are poorly understood.
Keywords
ytterbium trifluoride; structure; properties; solubility; dental cements; restorative materials
Subject
Chemistry and Materials Science, Biomaterials
Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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