Experimental Studies on the Improving Surface Hardness of Dental Stone

치과용(齒科用) 경석고(硬石膏) 의 표면경도(表面硬度) 강화(强化)에 관(關)한 실험적(實驗的) 연구(硏究)

The purpose of this studies is to determine the surface hardness of dental stone and to investigate the methods which increase the surface hardness of dental stone using the dissolved solution of various synthetic resin, the obtained results of hardness value calculated Rockwell Hardness Number by means of Rockwell Hardness Tester. 1) In this experiment, 10% polystyrene dissolved in 100cc amylacetate is excellent solution which provides the surface hardness of dental stone after setting of specimen, and there is no effective way that stone specimen is immersed into polystyrene in amylacetate, polystyrene in benzene and polystyrene in butylacetate above 1 hour. 2) When the stone specimen is immersed into acrylic resin in benzene and melamin resin in amylacetate at least 1 hour to 3 hours, the hardening effect of stone surface is valuable. 3) The stone specimen immersing into urea resin in butylacetate, the surface hardness of the stone specimen decreased within 1 hour, but increased after 3 houre. 4) For the separating medium, the easyfoil is superior to the olive oil in the aspect of improving the hardening effect of the immersed specimen.