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material
(redirected from filling materials)

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material
Of sufficient importance or relevance as to have possible significant influence on an outcome. For example, the possibility that a firm might lose its right to operate a number of television stations because competitors have filed with the Federal Communications Commission for those licenses would be a material fact in preparing the firm's financial statements. Compare immaterial.


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These were the original filling materials but they can become damaged if they get wet, so plastic pellets are becoming more popular.
Thirty-one chapters--including a new one on endonic materials-- cover topics including: gypsum products for dental casts, waxes, metals and alloys, ceramics and porcelain fused to metal, synthetic polymers, denture lining materials, impression materials, dental amalgam, resin-based filling materials, glass ionomer restorative materials, temporary crown and bridge resins, and cements based on phosphoric acid, among others.
s only a minor chip not involving a great amount of tooth damage, it can be built up to its original form with composites which are tooth colored filling materials.
 
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