Beschreibung:
Profeta, Andrea Corrado
The author (born in Teramo, Italy on August 10, 1981) graduated with honours in Dental Surgery at the Catholic University of Rome, the largest private university in Europe as well as one of the most reputable healthcare learning centre of the Italian country, and holds a Clinical PhD in Biomaterials from King's College London, UK.
The first section of this work is a review of the literature necessary to understand the objectives of the project; it includes general information about dental adhesive technology as well as adhesion testing, about dentine hybridisation and about the drawbacks of contemporary bonding systems. Several studies revealed excellent immediate and short-term bonding effectiveness of etch-and-rinse adhesives, yet substantial reductions in resindentine bond strength occur after ageing. Degenerative phenomena involve hydrolysis of suboptimally polymerised hydrophilic resin components and degradation of mineral-deprived water-rich resin-sparse collagen matrices by matrix metalloproteinases and cysteine cathepsins.