Dental adhesives introduction

To achieve such compatibility the primary requisite is that the restorative adheres to tooth material. This concept of adhesion is hardly to be foimd in the literature of the 1920s and 1930s. For that reason we find no attempt at developing tooth adhesives in that period. Adhesion was, apparently, only recognized as a desirable property in the 1950s. It seems for some reason to be associated with the introduction of simple resins as dental restorative materials. Although they were not a great success, attempts were made to bond them to tooth material. 

Polyelectrolyte-based dental cements or restorative materials include zinc polycarboxylates, glass ionomers, a variety of organic polyelectrolyte adhesives as well as alginate-based impression materials. Dental cements are primarily used as luting (cementing) agents for restorations or orthodontic bands, as thermal insulators under metallic restorations, and as sealents for root canals, pits and fissures. They are also sometimes used as temporary or permanent (anterior) restorations. For further introduction to dental materials the reader is referred to standard texts [122,123]. 

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