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Graphene Shows Promise For Super Strong Dental Fillings (elsevier.com)

Posted by Soulskill on from the in-your-teeth-and-your-space-elevators dept.

Zothecula writes: A team of researchers from four institutions located in Romania and St. Kitts have worked together to determine whether graphene could be used to create more durable dental materials. They worked to test how toxic (abstract) different forms of the material were to teeth, with promising results. "Typical metal fillings can corrode and composite fillings are not very strong; Graphene, on the other hand, is 200 times stronger than steel and doesn't corrode, making it a prime new candidate for dental fillings."

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  1. How the mighty have fallen? by Jfetjunky · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Once graphene had dreams of being the next wonder material. "Better transistors! Stronger than steel!" they sang. But now... Dental fillings.

  2. Graphene Shows Promise...? by sycodon · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's been showing Promise for lots of things for a long time now. Is is actually USED for anything yet?

    Sheesh, it's becoming just like Fusion.

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  3. Re:Probably too strong by hawkinspeter · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Are you sure that was due to thermal expansion and not having an air pocket that expanded due to pressure differences? I know you get issues with air pockets and fillings when diving so it might be possible to get the same going from a mountain top to sea level.

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