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Department of Conservative Dentistry, Floor 26, Guy's Tower, King's College London Dental Institute at Guy's, King's College and St Thomas' Hospitals, London Bridge, London, SE1 9RT, UK
The dawn of minimally invasive dentistry has led to the development of materials which rely on the use of effective adhesion to bond to remaining tooth tissue. Successful adhesive bonding is dependent upon appreciating the quality of the dental substrate, appropriate clinical handling of the material and patient, together with an appreciation of the chemistry of the adhesive. This paper outlines the current status of contemporary bonding, with particular emphasis on translating laboratory-based evidence into clinical practice. Using laboratory-based evidence, the ability of a bond to achieve a seal to enamel appears to be the best predictor of clinical performance.
Clinical Relevance: This article discusses the issues raised when translating research data about adhesive bonding from the laboratory to clinical dental practice.
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The term adhesion is defined as ‘the force that binds two dissimilar molecules together when they are brought into intimate contact’.1
The evolution of restorative materials has seen the dentist's repertoire shift towards materials which are dependent on reliable adhesive bonding, inherent strength and aesthetics, namely the resin-based adhesive materials.2 These require a mechanism to allow adhesion to remaining tooth tissue because they lack the inherent chemical self-adhesive capacity of materials like glass ionomer cements. In comparison to enamel bonding, dentine bonding has had a more problematic development, with clinically adequate adhesion achieved later than that to enamel. Despite making important advances, dentine bonding still has many hurdles to overcome with respect to the water content, structural heterogeneity of the substrate and the long-term stability of the bond. Nevertheless, the fact that adhesives can be placed at all in such a hostile environment and function with their intended purpose speaks wonders for the modern innovations and developments in the field of adhesive dentistry.
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