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Many clinical situations demand a provisional restoration that must serve in function for extended time. Large fixed prosthodontic cases and implant treatment are examples of situations where an easy to handle but retentive and durable temporary cement is required. GC America has introduced Fuji TEMP LT provisional cement.
Many clinical situations demand a provisional restoration that must serve in function for extended time. Large fixed prosthodontic cases and implant treatment are examples of situations where an easy to handle but retentive and durable temporary cement is required. GC America has introduced Fuji TEMP LT provisional cement.
This is a glass ionomer based material formulated to have excellent handling characteristics and a very low film thickness. It has numerous beneficial properties that would be expected from a glass ionomer including fluoride recharging, excellent hard and soft tissue compatibility and very high mechanical strength properties.
Because of its tooth like coefficient of thermal expansion and ionic bonding to metals and tooth structure, the maintenance of a marginal seal around the provisional is enhanced. The material also is radiopaque, making detection of interproximal and gingival sulcus excess easy.
Results from the Catapult evaluation
Results from a recent Catapult evaluation revealed that Fuji TEMP LT was well received and 83% of the evaluators would adopt this cement as a material of choice in their practice. Other findings from the survey included:
As might be expected with a cement designed for long-term function, there was a 31% rating of nearly difficult or difficult for removal of cement from the abutment. However, this is likely a small trade off in having a highly retentive and long lasting provisional cement and may be a perfectly acceptable characteristic for a truly longer term provisional.
Fuji TEMP LT represents an important material for practitioners looking for a solution to an often difficult problem, retention of a provisional restoration for an extended period of time. This material should be considered by anyone looking for a long-term provisional cement solution.
Final thoughts from the Catapult group
Suggestions to the next generation of the product
Catapult is an organization that consists of more than 50 clinicians spread throughout Canada and the United States. As a company, manufacturers pay a fee for their product to be evaluated and what we deliver are truthful, independent answers from surveys that we develop with them. We have had many products that have either had to be altered before hitting the market or simply never arrived because of our openly honest evaluations. In this way, Catapult assists the manufacturer to avoid potentially releasing a faulty product, or simply a product that needs refinement. Lastly our clients are omnipresent in the industry, small to large, no favoritism, simply reviewing the latest products in our practices.
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