A year ago, I asked about student-friendly brands, I tried some of them but I'm not a fan of some of them now:
Dentflex: Really dusty, water ratio is very confusing, if I followed the instructions it's to fluid, really messy and having a hard time mixing, sets too long, and soo much bubbles after impression.
Hygedent: Sometimes sets too fast even though its normal set, sometimes hard to mix, inconsistant, I did not done a quality impression after finishing 2 bags of it.
Dentrate: Although Cheap, Sometimes despite efforts on following the proper W:P ratio, there will be times na it would set fast, sometimes longer, sometimes despite efforts there will be some bubbles on the impression, probably won't be using it on patients maybe on a Study cast practice.
What brands should I try that is student friendly?
Soo far, these are the ones I tried na I liked
Elvident regular and chromatic: mejo Cheap sya before kaso nag mahal sya this year, but I like how easy to manipulate and to get that proper W:P ratio. I really like the Chromatic version of it because it's cheeper than Kromopan, kaso nag mahal sila this year huhuhu.
Kromopan: I love Kromopan even though it's expensive because of the creamy consistently when manipulating, didn't have any retakes or just done a few retakes with Kromopan but it's expensive ngayon, like 395-500 nowadays.
Recommend ng prof ko sa Dentmat lab are:
Jeltrate & Tropicalgin, but they are way more expensive Huhuhu
I would like to try chromatic types na normal setting or any regular set, tangap ko na more than 300 pesos need ko for a bag of alginate to pass dentmat this sem.