acrylic base resins are widely used in orthopedics and dental surgery. it is generally accepted that due to the incomplete conversion of methyl methacrylate (mma) monomer to the polymer form during polymerization of the resin, some mma monomers remain in the hardened material. mma monomer has been reported to cause abnormalities or lesions in several organs of animals. study of the literatures ...

Acrylic base resins are widely used in orthopedics and dental surgery. It is generally accepted that due to the incomplete conversion of methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer to the polymer form during polymerization of the resin, some MMA monomers remain in the hardened material. MMA monomer has been reported to cause abnormalities or lesions in several organs of animals. Study of the literatures ...

Acrylic base resins are widely used in orthopedics and dental surgery. It is generally accepted that due to the incomplete conversion of methyl methacrylate (MMA) monomer to the polymer form during polymerization of the resin, some MMA monomers remain in the hardened material. MMA monomer has been reported to cause abnormalities or lesions in several organs of animals. Study of the literatures ...

Recently, some fluid or pour resins have been introduced to simplify the processing of dentures. However, because of the presence of relatively high residual monomer, the mechanical properties of these resins are inferior to those of heat cured resins.1,2) The purpose of the present investigation is to measure the quantities of residual monomer and to investigate the effect of the residual mono...

The amount of residual monomer in methylmethacrylate resins used for denture bases is directly dependent on the polymerization procedure chosen. Residual monomer in PMMA powder has not yet been fully clarified. The aim of this study was to determine the amount of residual monomer in some PMMA powders used for denture bases. The study included determination of the amount of residual monomer in s...

One of the most important environmental concerns for the polymer industry is to produce new products with near-zero residual monomer content. A new process based on supercritical CO2 has been successfully tested for the extraction of the residual monomer and the simultaneous micronization of the polymer. The process has been tested on a pilot-scale plant. The reduction of methyl methacrylate (M...

BACKGROUND/AIM Polymethyl methacrylate is used for producing a denture basis. It is a material made by the polymerization process of methyl methacrylate. Despite of the polymerization type, there is a certain amount of free methyl methacrylate (residual monomer) incorporated in the denture, which can cause irritation of the oral mucosa. The aim of this study was to determine the amount of resid...

A simplified mathematical model which made use of Fick's laws of diffusion written in spherical coordinates was developed to describe the rate of diffusion of residual monomers from polymer resins. The properties of the monomer-polymer system which influenced the amount of monomer remaining in the polymer as a function of time were the diffusivity and solubility of the monomer in the polymer, a...