iBond: the seventh-generation, one-bottle dental bonding agent.

Dental adhesive systems used for bonding dental resins to enamel and dentin have evolved through several "generations," with changes in chemistries, mechanism, number of bottles, application technique, and clinical effectiveness. The trend in the latest generation of dental bonding systems is to reduce the number of components and clinical placement steps. The introduction of iBond, a single-bottle dental adhesive system, is the latest of the new generation materials, and combines etchant, adhesive, and desensitizer in one component. This article will show that laboratory test results comparing the bond strength and margin-gap sealing of iBond with other latest-generation dental adhesive systems have shown similar results.