出版物: 2021 年 5 月 28 日最近更新時間: 2025 年 3 月 3 日

TPE 材料进军牙科设备领域

凯柏胶宝® 是全球领先 TPE 制造商，针对各行各业提供各类热塑性弹性体产品和定制解决方案。公司研发的热塑宝 M 和热塑宝 K 系列化合物，可满足口腔护理设备在安全性和设计标准方面的严格要求。

如果眼睛是心灵的窗口，那么口腔就是整体健康的门户。良好的牙科保健和口腔卫生解决方案，对人体健康至关重要。为进一步推动口腔护理水平，目前正在开发全新牙科解决方案和技术，包括智能牙刷、牙线清洁器、弹性棒、口腔冲洗器、牙科植入物、数字化牙科和远程式牙科设备等。这些新设备可为患者提供口腔护理的舒适感和便捷性。

牙科技术领域的设备需要更符合人体工程学、兼具功能性和成本效益，热塑性弹性体（TPE）等新材料可在这方面支持该领域的拓展。

凯柏胶宝® 是全球领先 TPE 制造商，针对各行各业提供各类热塑性弹性体产品和定制解决方案。公司提供的高品质定制化合物，可帮助牙科设备设计企业和制造商实现产品创新设计和功能。

易于加工，优异的机械性能

凯柏胶宝® 的化合物具有精确机械性能和易于加工的特性，尤其适合牙科设备应用领域。

使用这些 TPE 材料，牙科设备制造商和设计企业可制造满足当前市场需求的产品，例如具有表面摩擦力低、结实耐用、柔软有弹性、耐化学品、耐磨损、耐刮擦和手感柔软的特征。

这些化合物提供多种预着色选择，可进行注塑和挤出加工。这些 TPE 材料还具有与 PP、PE 和极性热塑性塑料的良好包胶性能，帮助制造商实现多元化的产品创新设计。

这些 TPE 材料适用于生产多种类型的牙科设备，例如手持设备的手柄、牙科镜、拔牙设备、口腔托，填充器、手术吸气器等。

安全可靠的材料

凯柏胶宝® 的热塑宝 M 系列符合 VDI 2017 和 ISO 10993-5 标准，已被纳入《药品管理总档案（DMF）》。

这些 TPE 材料均可以消毒灭菌，不含乳胶、PVC、重金属和邻苯二甲酸盐，非常适合用于牙科设备。

该化合物已纳入凯柏胶宝® 的医疗服务包，实现出色的安全性和质量控制管理，可确保最佳的原料纯度和 24 个月稳定供应的保障。

同时，部分热塑宝 K 系列化合物符合食品级标准，例如欧盟法规（EU）No 10/2011、美国食品药品监督管理局（FDA）的联邦法规第 21 章（21 CFR）以及中国国标 (GB) 标准。

TPEs grit their teeth for dental equipment

KRAIBURG TPE, a global TPE manufacturer of a wide range of thermoplastic elastomer products and custom-engineered TPE solutions, offers the THERMOLAST® M and THERMOLAST® K series of compounds to meet the safety and design criteria required for oral care devices.

If the eye is the window to the soul, the mouth is the gateway to overall health. Dental health care and oral hygiene solutions are vital. New dental solutions and technologies are being developed to advance oral care, including interdental devices such as smart toothbrushes, water flossing, elastomeric sticks, oral irrigators, dental implants, digital dentistry, teledentistry, and more. These new devices provide patient comfort and access to oral care.

New materials such as thermoplastic elastomers (TPEs) support the expansion of the dental technology sector where demand for more ergonomic, functional and cost-effective devices is growing.

KRAIBURG TPE, a global TPE manufacturer of a wide range of thermoplastic elastomer products and custom solutions for multiple industries, offers high quality and custom-engineered compounds that can provide dentistry equipment designers and manufacturers the flexibility to innovate.

Easy processing, excellent mechanical properties

KRAIBURG TPE’s compounds possess the exact mechanical properties and easy processing characteristics suitable for dentistry equipment applications.

The TPEs can enable equipment manufacturers and designers to achieve flexible, durable, products with low surface friction; chemical, abrasion and scratch-resistance; and soft-touch feel to meet the current market demand.

Available in various pre-coloration options, the compounds can be processed through injection molding and extrusion. The TPEs also have good adhesion to PP, PE and polar thermoplastics, allowing for flexibility in innovating products.

The TPEs are suitable for applications in an array of dental equipment such as hand grip of hand pieces and dental mirrors, dental retractors, mouth props, pluggers, surgical aspirators and more.

Safe, reliable materials

KRAIBURG TPE’s THERMOLAST® M series complies with the VDI 2017 and ISO 10993-5 standard and is also listed in the Drug Master File.

The TPEs are sterilisable, are free of latex, PVC, heavy metals and phthalates, making them excellent for use in dental equipment applications.

This compound series also has optimum safety with excellent control management in KRAIBURG TPE’s Medical Service Package, which guarantees optimum raw materials purity and solid 24-month supply security.

Meanwhile, selected compounds from the THERMOLAST® K series comply with food grade standards such as the Commission Regulation (EU) No 10/2011, the Code of Federation Regulation Title 21 (21CFR) of the US Food and Drug Administrator (FDA), as well as with China GB (GuoBiao) standards.