Bulkfill resins: properties and applicability

Abstract

Composite resins (RCs) are materials widely used in dentistry as a restorative method. Despite this, its thickness capacity has limiting factors that interfere in an improvement in results. Thus, bulkfill RCs (RCB) arise with the possibility of unique increments in restorative processes. The objective of this work is to review the literature about what is known up to the current context about this restorative material, showing the clinical applicability of RCB, in addition to its properties as an effective implement in restorative dentistry. The following health descriptors were used: composite resins, polymerization, operative dentistry, clinical evaluation and chemistry applied in the PubMed and Science Direct databases, in English and interconnected by the Boolean operator “AND”. Of the 143 studies found, 133 were excluded for presenting one or more exclusion criteria, and 10 studies were included in this review. The RCBs through their chemical properties allow greater speed in clinical treatments, reducing technical complexities in professionais procedures, in addition to the ability to increase more advantageous than conventional RCs. However, further studies with longer evaluation periods are needed before a definitive recommendation for changes to clinical protocols.