Glass-ionomer cements as adhesives

✍ Scribed by A. O. Akinmade; J. W. Nicholson

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1993
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 610 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0957-4530
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00122272

✦ Synopsis

Although glass-ionomer cements are generally agreed to show very good adhesion to a variety of substrates encountered in clinical dentistry, laboratory testing of this property has not proved to be straightforward. In the current paper we review the published literature describing the testing of glass-ionomers as adhesives, We highlight the fact that these materials are employed under conditions of very high humidity and high moisture content that would impair the long-term bond durability of conventional adhesives. We conclude that further work is necessary to improve the understanding of the basic mechanism of adhesion in glass-ionomers and to extend the methods by which adhesion may be measured to include more-complex structures of greater clinical relevance.