While adhesive techniques have already penetrated almost all fields of dentistry, a gap remains between accepted treatment modes and what is carried out in daily practice. This book, a compilation of the proceedings from the 3rd European Symposium on Adhesive Dentistry, provides the information, arguments, and data that clinicians need to incorporate adhesive dentistry into their daily practice. Leaders in the field present the rationale for adhesive techniques in esthetic restorative dentistry. Minimally invasive dentistry and specific issues faced by clinicians using adhesive techniques with ceramic and resin composite restorations are also discussed. Finally, two concluding chapters remind clinicians that they are dentists operating in a biologic system with the objective to restore patients' health.

ISBN: 1-85097-107-2, 978-1-85097-107-8

208 pp; 208 illus (181 color)

Contents
1. How Important Are Esthetics?—Guido Vanherle, Marleen Peumans, Bart Van Meerbeek, Paul Lambrechts
2. Composite Layering—Roberto Spreafico, Jean-François Roulet
3. Preservation of Enamel with Precise Tooth Preparation—Galip Gurel
4. Changes in Operative Dentistry—Beyond G. V. Black—Graham J. Mount
5. Diagnosis and Restoration of Proximal Carious Lesions—Gotz M. Losche
6. Materials for Minimally Invasive Treatments—Marc Braem
7. Minimally Invasive Dentistry Using Ozone—Aylin Baysan, Edward Lynch
8. Are Adhesive Technologies Needed to Support Ceramics? An Assessment of the Current Evidence—F. J. Trevor Burke, Garry J. P. Fleming, Dan Nathanson, Peter M. Marquis
9. Ceramic Inlays Cemented Adhesively with Glass-Ionomer Cement and Resin Composite Luting Agents—Jan W. V. van Dijken
10. An Overview of the Clinical Use of Resin-to-Metal Bonding—Richard van Noort
11. Adhesive Technologies and the Improved Quality of Delivered Dentistry—Ivar A. Mjor
12. Can Technology Cure Disease?—Jean-François Roulet, Stefan Zimmer

Preface
Another book on adhesive dentistry? Is there a need for it? We asked ourselves these questions when deciding whether to compile the proceedings from the 3rd European Symposium on Adhesive Dentistry, held in Berlin in September 2001. We came to the clear conclusion that, yes, this information needed to be published, despite the fact that adhesive techniques have already penetrated almost all fields of practiced dentistry. Adhesive techniques have become very complex, and many factors must be considered with each specific clinical application.

In addition, there is still a gap between accepted treatment modes in adhesive dentistry and what is carried out in daily practice. Although new methods are beneficial for the dentition, changes in delivery of care are progressing at a slow pace. While researchers and academics are pushing the frontiers of adhesive dentistry well into acceptable limits for clinical practice, practitioners hesitate to change. They need more information, more arguments, and more data before making a decision. An attempt is made in this book to facilitate decisions and changes in the right direction.

The book can be divided into four sections. In chapters 1 through 3, leaders in the field present rationale for adhesive techniques in esthetic restorative dentistry. Chapters 4 through 7 deal with minimally invasive dentistry, which is possible only because of advances in adhesive technology. Chapters 8 through 10 are devoted to specific issues a clinician will face when using adhesive techniques with ceramic and resin composite restorations. Finally, chapters 11 and 12 remind us that we are not “adhesive technocrats” but dentists operating in a biologic system with the objective to restore the health of our patients.

In closing, we must thank all the authors for their contributions and the GC Corporation, whose generous sponsorship made the symposium possible.

Jean-Francois Roulet, DDS, Dr Med Dent, PhD
Professor and Director
Department of Operative and Preventive Dentistry and Endodontics
School of Dental Medicine
Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Campus Virchow Clinic
Berlin, Germany

Guido Vanherle, MD, DDS
Emeritus Professor
Department of Operative Dentistry and Dental Materials
School of Dentistry, Oral Pathology, and Maxillofacial Surgery
Faculty of Medicine
Catholic University of Leuven
Leuven, Belgium

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