Dentin Bonding

Challenges in Dentin Bonding

Dentin is a heterogeneous structure with 50% volinorganic content, 30%
organic content (type I collagen) and 20% fluid.
Its high fluid content places stringent requirements on the materials.
Tubular structure of dentin provides variable area for fluid to traverse to
surface and affect bonding.
Formation of smear layer plugging the tubules.
Three steps involved are etching, priming, bonding.
Mainly dentin bonding concentrated on etching, priming, bonding.
On acid etching dentin the smear layer is removed exposes the collagen
increases dentin permeability.
On etching dentin is converted from a hard mineralized surface to a very soft
mineral free collagen rich surface that collapses when air dried.
Surface becomes porous with inter- and intrafibrillar pores through which low
viscosity monomers penetrate polymerize to form hybrid layer.
Dentin etching changes the surface energy, high protein content exposed after
etching is responsible for low surface energy (44.8 dynes/cm) different from
enamel.
This surface energy has to be increased by surface active primer application
Objective of priming is to transform the hydrophilic dentin surface into a
hydrophobic surface, also to wet the surface, entangle with collagen fibers on
poly-merization, if possible react with functional groups of dentin for
chemical bonding.
Dental priming molecules has been mainly concentrated on bifunctional
molecules that bond to one end on tooth tissue and other end to composite
resin.

Current Strategies for Adhesion of Resins to Dentin

Three-step total-etch (E + P + B)
:Etchant (E)
- .Removes the smear layer
Exposes intertubular and.peritubular collagen
Decrease surface-free.energy
.Opens the tubules in a funnel conguration -

:Primer (P)

Includes bifunctional molecules(simultaneously hydrophilic and

-hydrophobic)
- .Envelops the external surface of collagen brils
Re-establishes surface free energy surface-free energy to levels .compatible with a more hydrophobic restorative material

:Bonding Agent (B)

Includes monomers that are mostly hydrophobic, such as Bis- GMA; however can contain a small percentage of hydrophilic
.monomers, such as HEMA
-.Copolymerizes with the primer molecules
Penetrates and polymerizes into the interbrillar spaces to serve .as a structural backbone to the hybrid layer

One-bottle total-etch (E + [PB])

:Etchant (E)
- .Removes the smear layer
- .Exposes intertubular and peritubular collagen
- .Opens tubules in a funnel conguration
-.Decreases surface-free energy

Primer (P)+ Bonding Agent (B)

- .Penetrates into the dentin tubules to form resin tags
The rst coat applied on etched dentin works as aprimer-it increase .the surface-free energy of dentine
The second coat (and third, fourth, and so on) acts as the bonding agent used in three-step systemsit lls the spaces between the
.dense network of collagen bers

Two-bottle self-etch ([EP] + B)

:Etchant (E)+ Primer (P)
The SEP does not remove the smear layer, but xes it and exposes about 0.5-1 m of intertubular collagen because of its acidity(pH =
.1.2-2.0)

The smear plug is impregnated with acidic monomers, but it is not .removed
When it impregnates the smear plug, the SEP prepares the pathway for the penetration of the subsequently placed fluid resin into the
.microchannels that permeate the smear plug

:Bonding Agent (B)

Uses the same type of bonding agent included in the three-step, .total-etch systems
The resin tags form on resin penetration into the microchannels .of the primer-impregnated smear plug

All-in-one self-etch (EPB)

:Etchant (E)+ Primer (P)+ Bonding Agent (B)
-.Etches enamel
.Incorporates the smear layer into interface Being an aqueous solution of a phosphonated monomer, it demineralizes and penetrates dentin simultaneously, leaving a
.precipitate on the hybrid layer
Forms a thin layer of adhesive, leading to low bond strengths; a .multi-coat approach is recommended
.Incompatible with self-cure composite resins -

Stresses at Resin-Dentin Interface

Composites shrink as they polymerize, creating stresses of 7MPa
within the composite mass, depending on the conguration of the
preparation. When the composite is bonded to one surface only
(e.g., for a direct facial veneer), stresses within the composite are
relieved by flow from the unbonded surface. Stress relief within a
three-dimensional bonded restoration is limited, however,by its
conguration factor. In an occlusal preparation, composite is bonded
to ve surfacesmesial, distal, facial, lingual, and pulpal.The
occlusal surface is the only free or unrestrained surface. In such a
clinical situation, the ratio between the number of bonded surfaces
and the number of unbonded surfaces is 5, giving the restoration a
conguration factor of 5.Stress relief is limited because flow can
occur only from the single free surface. Unrelieved stresses in the

composite contribute to internal bond disruption and marginal gaps

.around restorations that increase microleakage
It has been reported that immediate bond strengths of
approximately 17MPa are necessary to resist the contraction
stresses that develop in the composite during polymerization, to
prevent marginal debonding. Water sorption by the resin might
compensate for the effect of the polymerization shrinkage,as the
resin might expand and seal off marginal gaps,but this occurs only
over a relatively long time. Water sorption is directly proportional to
.the resin content
Enamel bond strengths usually are sufcient to prevent the
formation of marginal gaps by polymerization contraction stresses.
These stresses might be powerful enough to cause enamel defects
at the margins, however. Extension of the enamel cavosurface bevel
.helps to improve the enamel peripheral seal
Each time a restoration is exposed to wide temperature variations
in the oral environment (e.g.,drinking coffee and eating ice cream),
the restoration undergoes volumetric changes of different
magnitude than those of the tooth structure. This occurs because
the linear coefcient of thermal expansion of the composite is about
four times greater than that of the tooth structure. Microleakage
around dentin margins is potentiated by this discrepancy in linear
coefcient of thermal expansion between the restoration and the
.substrate
Loading and unloading of restored teeth can result in transitional or
permanent interfacial gaps. Additionally, the tooth substrate itself
might be weakened by cyclic loading. A study found that 71% of
Class V composite restorations in third molars with antagonists have
signicantly more microleakage than restorations placed in teeth
without opposing contact. Another study found that cyclic loading
and preparation conguration signicantly reduced the microtensile
bond strengths of a self-etching primer (SEP). Also, when half of a
wide occlusal Class I composite restoration is fatigued for 100,000
cycles between 5N and 35N,while the other half is kept as control,
the bond strengths of Single Bond (3M ESPE,St.Paul,Minn) decrease
.by 40% to 60%