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Threats To Adhesive/Dentin Interfacial Integrity And Next Generation Bio-Enabled Multifunctional Adhesives, Paulette Spencer, Qiang Ye, Linyong Song, Ranganathan Parthasarathy, Kyle Boone, Anil Misra, Candan Tamerler
Threats To Adhesive/Dentin Interfacial Integrity And Next Generation Bio-Enabled Multifunctional Adhesives, Paulette Spencer, Qiang Ye, Linyong Song, Ranganathan Parthasarathy, Kyle Boone, Anil Misra, Candan Tamerler
Civil and Architectural Engineering Faculty Research
Nearly 100 million of the 170 million composite and amalgam restorations placed annually in the United States are replacements for failed restorations. The primary reason both composite and amalgam restorations fail is recurrent decay, for which composite restorations experience a 2.0–3.5-fold increase compared to amalgam. Recurrent decay is a pernicious problem—the standard treatment is replacement of defective composites with larger restorations that will also fail, initiating a cycle of ever-larger restorations that can lead to root canals, and eventually, to tooth loss. Unlike amalgam, composite lacks the inherent capability to seal discrepancies at the restorative material/tooth interface. The low-viscosity adhesive …