Rupam Kaur

The clinical performance of current adhesives has significantly improved allowing resin restorations to be placed with a highly predictable level of clinical success. High clinical retention rates are consistently recorded for today's systems that are documented to produce qualitative hybrid layers. Unfortunately, retention is a very objective criterion, whereas assessing clinical micro-leakage is much more subjective and requires training and calibration among examiners. To satisfy the growing esthetic demands of today's dental patients, improvements in materials and procedures have been made to make it possible to reproduce the natural appearance of natural teeth with direct and/or indirect esthetic restorations.

This book gives an overview of all the instruments for tooth cutting procedures, as evolved from hand instruments to rotary drills and then to the newer advancements in the field of minimally invasive techniques for cutting or abrading the tooth structure. The newer advances in materials and designs of instruments, minimum intervention dentistry, air abrasion, LASERS and ultrasonic instruments in detail have been described.