AN ATTEMPT TO CLASSIFY THE DIAGNOSTIC ALLERGENS OF CONTACT HYPERSENSITIVITY IN DENTAL BIOMATERIALS

Abstract

There is a wide range of dental biomaterials with varied and complex composition. There are too many sensibilizing substances in dental materials and a careful study of their composition is necessary for choose the appropriate contact allergens in cases of suspicion of contact hypersensitivity to dental materials. We attempt to facilitate the diagnostic of contact allergy due to dental biomaterials by classifying the basic sensitizing components in different groups of dental biomaterials.

Keywords

• dental materials
• contact hypersensitivity
• diagnostic