ST. GEORGE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPS WORLD'S FIRST HI-IMPACT COLD CURE DENTAL ACRYLIC

St. George Technology, developer and manufacturer of performance polymers and supplier of the Excel Formula™ range of high quality dental products, has developed the world’s first hi-impact cold cure acrylic for dental use, which will improve dental lab productivity and reduce costs.

The market for hi-impact dental materials has been growing to meet the demands for better resistance to daily wear and tear, with all of these materials formed from a heat cure process. Excel Formula™ Hi-Impact Pourable is the first dental acrylic to achieve high strength and high impact resistance from a cold cure formulation, achieving a fracture toughness 35% greater than conventional cold cure denture base polymers. It is the only cold cure denture base on the market to fulfil the requirements of standard EN ISO 20795-1:2013 for high-impact denture base polymers (Sections 5.2.10 & 5.2.11).

This new cold cure material allows the dental...