DENTAL WAX MOLD

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a dental wax mold, with less curing contraction than conventional wax while usable the same way as the conventional dental wax by blending other components in wax, without requiring application of a reinforcing coating to a plaster mold, permitting forming a dental model more easily than a conventional wax mold, without forming a gap with the plaster mold at the time of cooling, capable of easily being removed from the plaster mold, and permitting precise casting of a crown or an inlay. SOLUTION: Melamine powder is blended in the dental wax. The quantity of blended melamine powder is set between 0.5 and 30 wt% of the total quantity of the dental wax and melamine powder. It is preferable that the average particle size of the melamine powder is not more than 10 μm. COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI