What You Will Learn:

Restorations often fail from composite shrinkage, which exposes teeth to reinfection and leaves gaps that cause post-operative sensitivity. The solution: Decoupling with Time.
Dr. David Alleman, DDS, developed this concept while researching protocols for improving bond strengths to dentin. Considering that advancements in adhesive dental materials now give practitioners the ability to create bonds to dentin that mimic a natural tooth’s connection to itself, why do patients still experience post-operative sensitivity and debonded restorations? Variables in substrate and prep design can greatly decrease bond strengths. Decoupling with Time brings predictability to adhesive restorations, creating a bond to dentin at the nanometer level that seals bacteria from the pulp and stays bonded for decades.

👉 Doctors will learn about hybrid layer development and how this affects adhesive restorations.
👉 Doctors will learn the “adhesive equation” and how bond strengths and stresses are managed in adhesive dentistry.
👉 Doctors will learn techniques to increase bond strengths to dentin while decreasing stresses to the hybrid layer.