What Do You Need For Easy Cementation?

Isolation and cement selection are the two key factors that will dictate the success of your cementation process. Mastering isolation is simpler, relying on dental skill and with few methods to choose from. On the other hand, selecting the best cement for you involves many factors, including restorative material, substrate, indication, and more.

Even just navigating these variables is difficult. The saturated dental cement marketplace only makes it harder. With so many dental cements to choose from, finding the right choice is overwhelming.

How Has Cementation Changed?

As medical technology continues to advance and the needs of restorations have changed, cementation and bonding materials have to continually evolve to meet modern needs. As a result of this, there is now an overabundance of cement types available – many with only very small differences between them. Others require additional conditioning and bonding agents, while some are only suitable for one specific indication or situation.

There is a good side to this variety of choice, as it is likely that there is the perfect cement for any and every indication out there. However, the problem is that this has also led to a confusion of choice, and dentists ending up with a huge inventory of cements with overlapping indications and dawning expiration dates.