Adhesive dentistry: a full-time practitioner's perspective.

Adhesive dentistry has provided techniques and materials for conservative and esthetic options in every restorative practice. The understanding of the process of etching to form microscopic undercuts and infiltrating these gaps with resin to create an adhesive interface between tooth and restorative material has demonstrated long-term durable and well-sealed interfaces, resulting in excellent clinical results. It has offered a potentially reversible and repairable restoration that may be completed with little to no discomfort to our patients (Figures 1–3).