K160443 · Dmg USA, Inc. · EMA · Sep 30, 2016 · Dental
Device Facts
Record ID
K160443
Device Name
TempoCem Clear
Applicant
Dmg USA, Inc.
Product Code
EMA · Dental
Decision Date
Sep 30, 2016
Decision
SESE
Submission Type
Traditional
Regulation
21 CFR 872.3275
Device Class
Class 2
Attributes
Therapeutic
Indications for Use
TempoCem Clear is indicated for: - Temporary or semipermanent luting of temporary and permanent crowns, bridges, inlays and onlays. - Temporary luting of temporary veneers - Temporary or semipermanent luting of implant-borne dental prosthesis.
Device Story
TempoCem Clear is a transparent, dual-curing, resin-based dental cement; used for temporary or semipermanent luting of dental restorations (crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, veneers) and implant-borne prostheses. Device consists of two pastes (base and catalyst) in a double-barreled syringe; automatically mixed via single-use mixing tips upon dispensing. Operated by dental professionals in a clinical setting. Provides mechanical fixation of provisional or permanent restorations to teeth or implant abutments. Benefits include ease of use, esthetic transparency, and fluoride release. Clinical decision-making is supported by the cement's physical/mechanical properties, ensuring stable retention of restorations during the temporary or semipermanent phase.
Clinical Evidence
No clinical data. Substantial equivalence is supported by bench testing of physical and mechanical properties (solubility, water sorption, dimensional change, gel/setting time, film thickness, peak polymerization temperature, compressive/flexural/shear bond strength, and fluoride release) and biocompatibility testing per ISO 7405.
Technological Characteristics
Dual-curing resin-based dental cement; glass filler in multifunctional methacrylate matrix. Free of methyl methacrylate and peroxides. Filler content: 40 wt% (22 vol%). Packaged in double-barreled syringe with automix tips. Biocompatibility per ISO 7405. Technical properties: 19.0 µg/mm³ water solubility, 65.5 µg/mm³ water sorption, 78 MPa compressive strength, 8.7 MPa shear bond strength.
Indications for Use
Indicated for temporary or semipermanent luting of temporary/permanent crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, temporary veneers, and implant-borne dental prostheses.
Regulatory Classification
Identification
Zinc oxide-eugenol is a device composed of zinc oxide-eugenol intended to serve as a temporary tooth filling or as a base cement to affix a temporary tooth filling, to affix dental devices such as crowns or bridges, or to be applied to a tooth to protect the tooth pulp. Dental cement other than zinc oxide-eugenol is a device composed of various materials other than zinc oxide-eugenol intended to serve as a temporary tooth filling or as a base cement to affix a temporary tooth filling, to affix dental devices such as crowns or bridges, or to be applied to a tooth to protect the tooth pulp.
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Food and Drug Administration 10903 New Hampshire Avenue Document Control Center - WO66-G609 Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002
September 30, 2016
Dmg Usa, Inc. % Pam Papineau Consultant, President Delphi Medical Device Consulting, Inc. 5 Whitcomb Ave Ayer, Massachusetts 01432
Re: K160443
Trade/Device Name: Tempocem Clear Regulation Number: 21 CFR 872.3275 Regulation Name: Dental Cement Regulatory Class: Class II Product Code: EMA Dated: August 30, 2016 Received: September 2, 2016
Dear Pam Papineau:
We have reviewed your Section 510(k) premarket notification of intent to market the device referenced above and have determined the device is substantially equivalent (for the indications for use stated in the enclosure) to legally marketed predicate devices marketed in interstate commerce prior to May 28, 1976, the enactment date of the Medical Device Amendments, or to devices that have been reclassified in accordance with the provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (Act) that do not require approval of a premarket approval application (PMA). You may, therefore, market the device, subject to the general controls provisions of the Act. The general controls provisions of the Act include requirements for annual registration. listing of devices, good manufacturing practice, labeling, and prohibitions against misbranding and adulteration. Please note: CDRH does not evaluate information related to contract liability warranties. We remind you, however, that device labeling must be truthful and not misleading.
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Tina Kiang, PhD Acting Director Division of Anesthesiology, General Hospital, Respiratory, Infection Control, and Dental Devices Office of Device Evaluation Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Enclosure
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES Food and Drug Administration
# Indications for Use
Form Approved: OMB No. 0910-0120 Expiration Date: January 31, 2017 See PRA Statement below.
510(k) Number (if known)
Device Name TempoCem Clear
Indications for Use (Describe)
TempoCem Clear is indicated for:
- · Temporary or semipermanent luting of temporary and permanent crowns, bridges, inlays and onlays.
- · Temporary luting of temporary veneers
Type of Use (Select one or hoth, as annlicable)
- · Temporary or semipermanent luting of implant-borne dental prosthesis.
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### Section 5 - 510(k) Summary
1. Submitter Information DMG USA, Inc. 23 Frank Mossberg Drive Attleboro, MA 02703, USA Phone: (508) 226-5660 Fax: (508) 226-7528
Contact Person: Pamela Papineau, RAC (US, EU, CAN) Phone: (978) 772-3552 Fax: (978) 796-5460 E: delphimdc@comcast.net
Date prepared: 27 September 2016
2. Device Name Name of device: TempoCem Clear Common name: Temporary dental cement Requlation number: 21 CFR 872.3275(b) Classification name: Dental Cement Regulatory device class: II Product code: EMA
3. Predicate Device
Primary predicate: Telio CS Link Systemp.link (K042846). Reference predicate: Telio CS Cem Implant (K120432).
### 4. Device Description
TempoCem Clear is a transparent, dual-curing, resin-based dental cement for the temporary or semipermanent cementing of provisional resin-based composite restorations (crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, veneers) to a tooth and for temporary or semipermanent luting to an implant abutment. The cement consists of two pastes (base and catalyst) packaged in a double-barreled plastic syringe. The pastes are automatically mixed when dispensed through the single-use mixing tips supplied with the device.
#### 5. Indications for Use
- · Temporary or semipermanent luting of temporary and permanent crowns, bridges, inlavs and onlays.
- · Temporary luting of temporary veneers.
- · Temporary or semipermanent luting of implant-borne dental prosthesis.
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### 6. Comparison to the Predicate Device
A comparison of TempoCem Clear with the primary predicate device indicates the following similarities and differences.
| Definition or<br>Property [unit] | TempoCem Clear<br>(proposed device)<br>(K160443) | Telio CS Link<br>(predicate device)<br>(K042846) |
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| Common name | Temporary dental cement | Temporary dental cement |
| Classification name | Cement, Dental<br>21 CFR 872.3275 (b) | Cement, Dental<br>21 CFR 872.3275 (b) |
| Product code | EMA | EMA |
| Indications for Use | Temporary or semipermanent<br>luting of temporary and<br>permanent crowns, bridges,<br>inlays and onlays.<br>Temporary luting of temporary<br>veneers.<br>Temporary or semipermanent<br>luting of implant-borne dental<br>prosthesis. | Temporary cementation of<br>provisional restorations.<br>The product has been designed<br>to remain in the mouth for a<br>maximum of 6 weeks. |
| Composition | Glass filling material in a matrix<br>of multifunctional<br>methacrylates. Catalyst,<br>stabilizer, additives. Free from<br>methyl methacrylate and<br>peroxides. Percentage of filler:<br>$40 wt % = 22 vol.% (0.02 -2.5 μm)$ . | Telio CS Link is composed of<br>bismethacrylates (56 wt.%)<br>and fillers (43 wt.%). Initiators,<br>stabilizers and pigments are<br>additional ingredients. |
| Curing mechanism | Dual-curing | Dual-curing |
| Maximum solubility<br>measured as water<br>solubility, dual-cure<br>[µg/mm³] | $19.0 ± 1.3$ | $9.1 ± 0.6$ |
| Water sorption, dual-<br>cure [µg/mm³] | $65.5 ± 2.0$ | $77.3 ± 1.4$ |
| Dimensional change<br>after 7 days, dual-cure<br>[%] | $1.0 ± 0.1$ | $1.7 ± 0.1$ |
| Gel time, self-cure [s] | 65 | 165 |
| Setting time, self-cure,<br>measured as final<br>setting time, excluding<br>30 s mixing time [s] | 318 | 216 |
| Bonding strength for<br>intended use, dual-cure | Good to satisfactory | Good to satisfactory |
| Film thickness, dual-<br>cure [µm] | $6 ± 1$ | $39 ± 3$ |
| Amount of heat<br>generated during | $43.1 ± 1.3$ | $43.0 ± 0.5$ |
| Definition or<br>Property [unit] | TempoCem Clear<br>(proposed device)<br>(K160443) | Telio CS Link<br>(predicate device)<br>(K042846) |
| setting (dual-cure),<br>measured as peak<br>polymerization<br>temperature [°C] | | |
| Compressive strength,<br>dual-cure [MPa] | 78 ± 8 | 43 ± 6 |
| Flexural strength, dual-<br>cure [MPa] | 5.4 ± 0.3 | 6.4 ± 0.2 |
| Shear bond strength,<br>dual-cure [MPa] | 8.7 ± 1.9 | 7.8 ± 2.0 |
| Fluoride release,<br>measured as<br>cumulative value over<br>28 days, dual-cure<br>[ppm] | 8.0 ± 2.2 | No data<br>(does not contain NaF) |
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TempoCem Clear is similar to the predicate device Telio CS Link in that they are both automixing, transparent, dual-curing temporary resin dental cements to be used for cementing restorations such as crowns, bridges, inlays and onlays. The devices have substantially equivalent physical and mechanical properties.
TempoCem Clear is different from the predicate device in that it contains sodium fluoride. The subject and predicate devices have slightly different Indications for Use language. The Indications for Use for Telio CS Link do not mention, but do not exclude, the use for specific restorations (temporary and permanent crowns, bridges, inlays, onlays, and veneers). The Intended Use for Telio CS Link as presented in the K042846 Summary was: "For the temporary cementation of temporary inlays, onlays, partial crowns, crowns or bridges." The differences in the Indications for Use affect neither the Intended Use nor substantial equivalence.
The reference predicate device, Telio CS Cem Implant, has the same FDA Product Code (EMA= Dental cement) as TempoCem Clear. Telio CS Cem Implant is a selfcuring resin cement with lightcuring option for the esthetic, temporary, reversible / semi-permanent cementation of restorations on implant abutments. The Indications for Use for Telio CS Cem Implant ("Reversible/semi-permanent cementation of longterm temporary and permanent restorations on implant abutments") are similar to the specific Indication for Use for TempoCem Clear ("Temporary or semipermanent luting of implant-borne dental prosthesis."). The composition of Telio CS Cem Implant (bismethacrylates (approx. 52 %wt.) and fillers (approx. 46 %wt.). Initiators, stabilizers, auxiliaries and piqments are additional components.) is substantially equivalent to TempoCem Clear. Thus TempoCem Clear is similar to the reference predicate Telio CS Cem Implant in composition, curing and indications.
## 7. Non-Clinical Performance Data
Physical and mechanical properties of TempoCem Clear were investigated and compared to the predicate device in accordance with FDA's 1998 Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff: Dental Cements - Premarket Notification (chemistry of the
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setting reaction, working and setting times, solubility, dimensional change, bonding strength, film thickness, heat generated during setting and biocompatibility), Comparative data relevant for temporary, dual-curing cements demonstrate substantial equivalence of TempoCem Clear to the predicate device, Telio CS Link.
The biocompatibility testing was performed according to the FDA 1998 Guidance and the following consensus standard:
- ISO Standard 7405 Second edition (2008): Dentistry Evaluation of biocompatibility of medical devices used in dentistry
Equivalence in biocompatibility to the predicate device was demonstrated in cytotoxicity studies.
In addition, TempoCem Clear can be compared to other currently marketed dental products also manufactured by DMG: Luxatemp Ultra (K101710), Luxatemp / Luxatemp-Solar (K013674) and Luxatemp Automix (K924830). These dual-cure or auto-cure devices are not temporary cements, but have many similarities in curing mechanism and composition with TempoCem Clear. For example, the same auto-cure system and many of the same resin and pigment components are used in TempoCem Clear. The Luxatemp products have been marketed world-wide for over 25 years, and there is considerable clinical experience with these products and their components. This experience provides further evidence for the biocompatibility of the materials in TempoCem Clear.
### 8. Clinical Performance Data
Not applicable. Clinical performance testing has not been performed for the proposed device.
### 9. Conclusions
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Based on the device Indications for Use, composition and physical / mechanical properties, TempoCem Clear has been shown to be substantially equivalent to the predicate device.
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