In 1843 a Portuguese engineer, Jose d'Almeida, described a natural plastic material to the Royal Asiatic Society in London. Gutta-percha, created by boiling the sap of the Malayan gutta tree ...

1896 catalog of dental filling materials from S. S. White Dental Mfg. Co., including color and black and white drawings, descriptions, and prices.

Unlike rubber, it didn’t crumble in salt water and stayed firm on setting. This new wonder material was called Gutta Percha, after the tree that it came from, and it would blow Victorian minds.

It is safe and biocompatible filling material. It gives proven good 3-dimensional ... of lateral and curved root canals. Flowable alpha gutta-percha with low melting point allows apical sealing ...