Failures in Composites

The last four decades have seen remarkable technological advances in the fields of aesthetic and more recently, minimally invasive dentistry. These led to the popularity of tooth colored restorative material to a rapid increase in the use of resins. Since 1990, many classifications of resin composites have been introduced. Resin composites, also called resin-based composites, composite resins or simply composites, are by far the most commonly used restorative materials in the anterior region of the mouth. Dental resin-based composites are structures composed of three major components : a highly cross-linked polymeric matrix reinforced by a dispersion of glass, mineral, or resin filler particles and/or short fibers bound to the matrix by coupling agents. This book basically talks about the failures of the composites.