J Korean Acad Prosthodont.  1997 Jun;35(2):330-343.

A STUDY ON THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND COLOR STABILITY OF MAXILLOFACIAL PROSTHETIC SILICONE MATERIAL

• Park CJ
• Kim CW
• Kim YS

Abstract

Extraoral maxillofacial prostheses are essential for restoring facial structures that are lost as a result of congenital missing, injuries from accidents, surgical treatments of head and neck cancer. Recently, silicone is the most useful material for this purpose and is more advantageous than other maxillofacial prosthetic materials. However, there are some problems for long-term usage of silicone prostheses due to tear and color change. These are major contributing environmental factors to those problems that are such as ultraviolet light, cleansing agents, changes in humidity and successive adhesion and removal. The aim of this study is to evaluate the physical properties and color changes of maxillofacial prosthetic silicone material by those environmental factors using A - 2186 silicone material (Factor II, USA) and two pigments, cadmium yellow medium and cosmetic red. Aluminium molds were fabricated according to the ASTM No. D412 & D624 specifications and resulted specimens from molds were fabricated and treated as follows. Control group and experimental I group were fabricated with 0.1% wt. pigment mixing in silicone elastomer and II-1 group, II-2 group of experimental II group were fabricated with 0.2%, 0.3% wt. pigment mixing in silicone elastomer, respectively. Control group was kept in darkroom at room temperature, I-1 group was kept under natural sunlight during 1 week, I-2 group was soaked in 20% soap water during 1 wk. I-3 group was successively adhered and removed 200 times on inner region of arm using Daro adhesive-33. Experimental II groups were kept in darkroom at room temperature. Instron universal testing machine was used to measure the% elongation, tensile strength, tear strength of control, experimental I, II groups and reflectance spectrophotometer (COLOR EYE-3000, Macbeth, USA) was used to measure the color differences between control group and experimental I group. The results were as follows : 1. When compared with control group, natural weathering group and 20% soap-water soaking group had no significant differences in% elongation (p>0.05). 2. 200 times successive adhesion and removal group, 0,2% wt. pigment group and 0.3% wt. pigment group had significant decreases in% elongation (p<0.05). 3. Natural weathering group, 20% soap-water soaking group and 200 times successive adhesion and removal group had no significant differences in tensile strength (p>0.05) 4. 0.2% , 0.3% wt. pigment groups had significant decreases in tensile strength (p<0.05). 5. Values of all experimental groups were decreased in tear strength. and 200 times successive adhesion and removal group had significant decrease in tear strength (p<0.05). 6. Natural weathering group and 20% soap-water soaking group had significant color differences (deltaE) and it could be detectable to naked eye (p<0.05) 7. Color differences between control group and 200 times adhesion and removal group were not detectable to the naked eye (deltaE<1.0)

MeSH Terms

Arm
Cadmium
Detergents
Fungi
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Humidity
Maxillofacial Prosthesis
Prostheses and Implants
Silicone Elastomers
Soaps
Sunlight
Tensile Strength
Ultraviolet Rays
Water
Weather
Cadmium
Detergents
Silicone Elastomers
Soaps
Water