Dental restorative and method of restoring a tooth

Abstract

A method of restoring a tooth includes applying a dental adhesive to the tooth, wherein the dental adhesive is self-curing and includes a redox initiator. Before the self-curing dental adhesive cures, there is applied to the tooth a curable dental restorative material, wherein the curable dental restorative material includes at least one polymerizable monomer having an acidic moiety selected from the group consisting of 1 and V. salts of I, II, III or IV. The curable dental material further includes a thermal redox initiator or a photoinitiator. The method also includes curing the dental adhesive and the curable dental restorative material substantially simultaneously; such that after curing, the dental restorative material has an adhesion to dentine of greater than about 7 MPa.

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