Inlay wax

Inlay wax

The many uses of dental wax

Dental wax is an important material in dentistry as it provides benefits to making for example crowns, bridges, prostheses, and dentures. The waxes are usually made of a combination of natural and synthetic wax and resins to guarantee the end product’s beneficial properties. Dental wax is mainly used in three situations:

Making molds that give the shape to the final crowns and bridges;
Determining the required shape of crowns, dentures, and prostheses;.
Making models that can be fitted and easily altered when needed.
The 3 types – Dental pattern, processing, and impression wax

Dental wax is generally a thermoplastic system that appears in a solid form at room temperature. When the temperature rises, the wax takes a liquid phase. Waxes do not have an exact melting point, but they rather have a melting range.

Even though the waxes behave similarly in different temperatures, there are numerous different products for the different purposes and situations we described in the beginning. The table below shows the three types of dental wax can be divided into as well as more specific products that fall under each group of waxes.