Bonding agents-everything new and simpler is not always better

Recently I attended a seminar which reinforced a choice I made a few years ago.

At that time, everyone was jumping on the bandwagon about new bonding agents (materials that bond tooth to filling material). The new wave was an all-in-one bottle as opposed to the traditional multi-step approach. This never made sense to me as you are basically leaving debris minerals in the tooth under the fillings. Evidence is now building that the newer faster method is causing more tooth sensitivity which doesn’t surprise me at all.

In the rush to make things simpler and faster, better was ignored.