FAQ’s DOC’S BEST™ Red Cement with Activated Copper
DOC’S BEST™ White Cement
with Activated Copper
DOC’S BEST™ Pulp Canal
Sealer with Activated Copper
COPALITE® Varnish
Patent Pending on several
formulations and applications besides the above
The red color of DOC”S BEST™ Cement blends better when used to cement gold restorations. Standard Zinc Phosphate cement leaves a white line, which may discolor. The red color will not discolor the tooth structure.
The
DOC’S BEST™ Red Cement can be used under posterior composite restorations with
a minimal of coloration showing through the composite. There is a DOC’S BEST™
White Cement formulated for anterior teeth restorations. A new formulation of
White Copper Plus has the strength and effectiveness of the Red Copper cement
and the snow-white color desired by dentists.
Copper
is a known decay-retarding and collagen-building mineral in nature. Copper is
naturally antimicrobial but its destruction of Biofilm matrix is of an
electrical nature created by proper galvanism. The patent pending formulas use
two dissimilar metals within an acidic solution forming a battery-like affect:
Phosphoric
acid
Copper-excellent
electrical conductor
Silver-excellent
electrical conductor
In
addition, copper is a well-known antimicrobial agent of its own accord. Silver
as well has been used for its antimicrobial properties for centuries.
Copper
and silver both with positive charges tend to repel each other, thus creating a
great deal of galvanic spin.
Iron
while not known for its antimicrobial properties is a positively charged
dissimilar metal capable of putting copper into a spin. Iron and copper within
blood have an antibiofilm effect.
Copper
in low therapeutic doses promotes pulpal health and retards decay. In nature,
copper is an inorganic mineral and is reported to rebuild collagen fibers and
retard decay. The formulation for the DOC’S BEST™ products has a very low dose
of copper activated by metallic salts.
For
over 200 years dentists in the US and Europe cemented gold swaged crowns with
Red Copper cement. The ingredients in the
older formulations had very high doses of copper. The swage crowns were
preformed, stamped in sheets of gold, much like our aluminum temporary crowns
are today. The gold was thin and could be crimped easily around the tooth. The
gold was 22 karat, which is soft. Through the years the patient would wear away
the gold by just normal chewing, and the Red Copper cement would be exposed.
The tooth was still protected by the Red Copper cement. It was more durable to
the forces of mastication than the gold. The oldest recorded patient with a
gold swaged crown and Red Copper cement that we could find documentation, was a
woman who had the crown and cement placed when she was 6 years old. She died at
age 102 with the Red Copper cement exposed through her worn gold swaged crown.
No decay was present around the Red Copper cement. The crown was placed by Doc
Holliday, famous dentist and side-kick of Wyatt Earp, a famous US sheriff in
the Old West (1870’s).
These cements are only different in color. They have
the same properties. The DOC’S BEST™ Red Cement has a slightly greater
compressive strength and is recommended to be placed in posterior teeth. The
DOC’S BEST™ White Cement is more aesthetically pleasing under anterior
fillings. The new White Copper Plus formulation rivals the physical properties
of any red copper cement and better esthetics that the White.
The basic similarity is they all have the Activated
Copper formulation in them. The DOC’S BEST™ Cement Powders can be mixed with COPALITE® Varnish for any
situation when the dentist needs to destroy
LIVE tooth decay in the tooth without the necessity of pulpal
exposure. The Cement –Varnish mixture (5 air dried layers) can be painted
directly on the live decay, killing the decay and causing no pain to the
patient. This slurried liner will penetrate the potential one-mile of dentinal
tubules, and prevent sensitivity to the patient. The patient’s tooth only needs
a thick mixture of the Cement- Universal Liquid mixture added. The restoration is finished with composite,
amalgam or gold restoration. The DOC’S
BEST™ Pulp Canal Sealer is placed
around the root canal post. FIRST, five layers of Cement/ Varnish mixture is
painted in the root canal. Allow two minutes to completely dry. Mix the Pulp Canal
Sealer, load into a Centrix® ampule and express into the canal. Mix a thick mix
of DOC’S BEST™ cement and place the post. Build up the thick mix around the
post as a core build-up. Cement the final crown with DOC’S BEST™ cement to
protect the tooth. The crown will stay strong for many years. The DOC’S BEST™
products and COPALITE ®Varnish are all antimicrobial to protect all tooth
surfaces from harmful Biofilms for many years to come.
Yes,
if the dentist is placing a composite restoration, it is recommended to use a
bonding adhesive to adhere the cement to the composite. Investigations are
underway to add the patent pending powder formula to various dental restorative
products in order to render them truly anti-microbial. Enamel bonding is not
effected by the cement.
Yes,
but using the DOC’S BEST™ Red Cement is a stronger cement to take the forces of
chewing. The new White Copper Plus formulation has the same physical properties
as DOC’S BEST™ Red Copper Cement and is very interchangeable.
DOC’S
BEST™ Red Cement with Activated
Copper 15
years
DOC’S
BEST™ White Cement with Activated Copper 15 years
DOC’S
BEST™ Pulp Canal Sealer with Activated Copper 5
years
COPALITE®
Varnish 71
years on the worldwide market
with its known antimicrobial properties. It is time
tested.
Millions of patients have been treated with these quality products in the USA and Europe. No complaints have been documented due to product failure. These products were invented by dentists for dentists. They want their colleagues to be assured of the same quality results every time they place these products in a patient’s tooth. The use of these cements bring forth a paradigm of therapeutic use of key metallic salts used in forming superior phosphate cements.
The DOC’S BEST™ Red
Cement Powder can be mixed with a self-curing composite to be used as a core
build up. Mix together about 1/4
scoop of the DOC’S BEST™ Red Cement Powder only with a small amount of A&B parts of the self-curing composite
material. Place in the tooth. Allow to self-cure. The composite can then be
prepped to receive a crown.
You will have a build up that will resist microbial
infestation. Testing is underway for placing the patent pending formula powder
in other dental restorative products.
Copper
cements were said to be bonding cements by many dentists who used them because
of their superior retentive qualities. In fact the thin powder created by
calcinations when combined with the superior mechanical qualities of red copper
cements led to that belief. What was actually happening was the use of
irregularities in the casting and the prepared tooth to form a cement lock.
While DOC’S BEST™ Cements are not bonding cements (we do not believe in bonding
to dentin) They have superior retentive qualities due to their fine consistency
and hardness upon setting.
With
Red Copper Cements there was always the illusion of bonding. This thought was
not true for regular zinc phosphate cements.
Our
copper cements use low percentages of activated copper. They, according to
Clifford Reactivity Testing, Colorado Springs, CO, and clinical experience,
DOC’S BEST™ cements are much more biocompatible than other zinc phosphate
cements. Low doses of copper are necessary for life. Our red blood cells form
around copper. High doses of copper are toxic and are never recommended for
dental cements. Of the early copper cements, about two-thirds of the cements
used unsafe levels of copper. A few, very good copper cements used low dosages
in a way that made them very safe, and kind to the tissue while being as
antimocrobial as the high percentage copper cements.
Until
Biofilm Engineering began seriously about the year 2000, no one really
understood what had to be added to copper to make it useful against Biofilms.
Not until 2000, did dental science realize that dental disease was Biofilm
related. Prior to this, planktonic microbes were considered the problem. There
is a huge difference between planktonic forms and the estimated 700 varieties of
Biofilm microbes that exist in colonies associated with teeth. Going after
Biofilms without activated copper is like hunting lions with a B.B. Gun. Unless
the mucopolysaccaride matrix can be penetrated and destroyed, Biofilms remain
extremely resistant to chemicals, one would normally consider to be highly
bacteriocidal.
Rev.
3/7/05