Put Your Best Teeth Forward: A Mass Transfer Study of Crest Whitestrips

dc.contributor.author	vinegar, abby
dc.contributor.author	gaborski, pam
dc.contributor.author	Bermudez, Claudia
dc.contributor.author	Davis, Patty
dc.date.accessioned	2004-06-17T21:19:01Z
dc.date.available	2004-06-17T21:19:01Z
dc.date.issued	2004-06-17T21:19:01Z
dc.description.abstract	Crest Whitestrips are thin, liquid films adhered to a plastic exterior that can be applied directly to the tooth, enabling mass transfer of its active ingredient, hydrogen peroxide, to penetrate the tooth outer layer. The tooth outer layer consists of enamel and dentin. The goal of this study was to model the concentration of hydrogen peroxide as it moves through the gel tooth outer layer for a period of 30 minutes. GAMBIT was used to create a two-dimensional mesh modeling the three layers through which the hydrogen peroxide diffuses through: the gel, enamel and dentin. FIDAP was then used to model the process in which hydrogen peroxide moved through these three layers. A sensitivity analysis was performed varying the diffusion coefficients and reaction rate of hydrogen peroxide being used up. It was found that accurate values for all of these properties must be obtained in order to determine an accurate solution.	en_US
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dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/129
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.subject	tooth, drug delivery
dc.title	Put Your Best Teeth Forward: A Mass Transfer Study of Crest Whitestrips	en_US
dc.type	report	en_US

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