10/29/2025
How about a game of Eye Spy. How many of these products do you recognize? I used to hate dental materials while in dental school. It was hard to grasp the significance of the ranges of numbers, how strong it was, how it behaved when you tried to break it, and then all the reasons why it mattered and how to apply them. It got complicated quickly. Then throw in real life and how you have all the options at your disposal and can buy whatever kind you wanted. Learning biomimetics helps bring all those into focus. We need certain materials to work certain ways depending on where we’re at in the tooth. Now, I love learning about materials and all the intricacies that they have. If you’re ever in doubt on which material to use, look back at the natural tooth and see how it’s behaving and look to replicate that!