Abstract :
An ideal dental repair material should possess certain exclusive properties such as adequate adhesive
ability, dimensional stability, biocompatibility, bioactivity etc. Calcium silicate based materials seem to
have intrinsic properties suitable for their clinical use, such as good sealing correlated to expansion, and the
ability to set in the presence of fluids, bioactivity, the release of ions acting as epigenetic signals, and good
biological properties. The introduction of MTA was considered as a major break-through in the history
of material science. Biodentine has been recently introduced as the “the first all-in-one, bioactive and
biocompatible material for damaged dentin replacement”. This article attempts to compare the properties
and clinical applications of MTA and Biodentine.
Keyword :
Adhesive ability, Biological properties, Calcium silicate, Biodentine, MTA.