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Paper ID S011 : Electrochemical behavior and released ions of the stainless steels used for dental magnetic attachments


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Tetsuo Ohyama (Nihon University School of Dentistry )

Thank you very much for your interesting presentation.
I have one question.
Do you think the austenitic stainless steel of SUS 316L is not suite for dental use?
According to your conclusion you didn't mention it.

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Yukyo Takada (Division of Dental Biomaterials, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry )

Thank you very much for a nice question. I believe that 316L stainless steel has sufficient corrosion resistance and is suitable for dental use when it is not in the environment with galvanic corrosion of dissimilar metals. The 316L stainless steel is usually used as biomedical stainless steel in vivo without the galvanic corrosion. Therefore, it is difficult to say that it is completely suitable to use for dental magnetic attachments which are assumed to contact with dissimilar metals. For instance, there is an electrochemical disadvantage that the pitting potential of 316L is relatively near to the corrosion potential when 316L is in contact with precious alloys used for root caps. As the pitting potential of 316L hardly reduces under the corrosion potential in contact with the precious alloys, however, there is few problem practically in the galvanic corrosion.