Recent Advances in Contemporary Dental Adhesives

Abstract

Dental adhesives are solutions of resin monomers that can make the resin/ tooth structure interaction achievable. Adhesive systems are composed of monomers with both hydrophilic groups that enhance wettability to the dental hard tissues and hydrophobic groups that allow the interaction and co-polymerization with the restorative material. Modification of adhesive materials is necessary to improve the longevity of resinous restorations and to obtain more stable resin-dentin bond through incorporation of active components into the adhesive system, treatment of the dentin surface prior to adhesive application, and modification of the bonding protocol.