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Effect of erbium-doped: yttrium-aluminum-garnet laser
preparation on resin-cavity interface using a universal adhesive
evaluated by swept source optical coherence tomography
Shigeyuki Nagai, DDS,a Masayuki Otsuki, DDS, PhD,a Alireza Sadr, DDS, PhD,bYasushi Shimada, DDS, PhD,a Juri Hayashi, DDS,a Junji Tagami, DDS, PhD,a andYasunori Sumi, DDS, PhDca

Department of Cariology and Operative Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences,bTokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan, Department of Restorative Dentistry, School ofcDentistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA, and Center of Advanced Medicine for Dental
and Oral Diseases, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology, Obu, Japan
Purpose: The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate cavity adaptation between erbium-doped:
yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Er:YAG) laser irradiated cavity and composite resin using a universal type adhesivewith different application by means of a swept source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT).
Materials and Methods: A cylindrical cavity was prepared on the labial surface of extracted bovine incisor byeither rotary cutting instrument or Er:YAG laser. The cavity was applied by either two-step self-etchingadhesive (Clearfil SE Bond, CS) or universal type adhesive (Schotchbond Universal, SU), as self-etching or
selective enamel etching, and then was restored with a flowable composite resin. Gap formation of enamel anddentin interface was evaluated by an SS-OCT.
Results: At the enamel interface, there are no statistical differences between bur preparation and laser
preparation in each group. For bur prepared SU groups, selective enamel etching showed less gap formation
than self-etching group. At the dentin interfaces, there are no statistical differences between bur preparationand laser preparation. Selective enamel etching did not affect gap formation at dentin. On lased dentin, CS
showed better adaptation compared to SU.
Conclusion: It was concluded that the universal type adhesive showed comparable adaptability to tooth
substrate prepared by bur and laser, and selective enamel etching improved adaptation to bur prepared enamel incase of a universal type adhesive.
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Key Words: Er:YAG laser, gap formation, selective enamel etching, SS-OCT, universal type adhesive

Introduction
The erbium-doped: yttrium-aluminum-garnet (Er:YAG) laser with a wavelength of 2.94 µm was introduced
for dentistry in 19891 and then, the Food and Drug Administration of United States cleared for marketing thefirst Er:YAG laser for use in preparing human dental cavities in 1997.2

The Er:YAG laser is able to remove

caries lesion in tooth structures together with sound enamel and dentin with minimal thermal effects in theadjacent hard and soft tissues.2

Although the cavity preparation using Er:YAG laser takes more time, compared

3,4

that preparation method advantages include low noise and vibration, eliminating,to rotary cutting instruments,

in most cases, the need for local anesthesia.5

A clinical study suggested that the application of the Er:YAG

laser system was a more comfortable alternative or adjunctive method to conventional mechanical cavity
preparation.4
After removal of caries by the Er:YAG laser, the cavity is generally restored with an adhesive material,
mainly composite resin.

Indications for composite resin restoration have been widely expanded as improving

the various properties of the adhesives and the composite resins.

Clinical trials demonstrated that composite

resin restorations were acceptable for long period.6,7

As a result, directly placed composite resins serve as

standard materials in restorative and esthetic dentistry.

Recently, new adhesive systems, so called “universal

type” adhesives have been launched, which allow self-etching, selective enamel etching and total etching

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However, there are no study on the effect of universal type adhesive on Er:YAG laser

irradiated cavity.
For longevity of the restoration, bonding and adaptability between cavity and filling material should becritical.

Adaptation at the resin-cavity interface and bond strength have often been investigated by in vitro

evaluation of the restorative materials and techniques.8-26

Among them, there are many research concerning thebond strength and the adaptation between restoration and cavity prepared by Er:YAG laser.8,9,12,13,15,18,19,21,24,26
Some researches showed the comparable bond strength8,18 and adaptability26 of lased tooth and bur-prepared
tooth, and other reported different results.9,12,13,15,19,21,24
For evaluation of the resin-cavity interface, various methods have been employed.
evaluation method using optical coherence tomography (OCT) was proposed.

17,27-30

Recently, a new

OCT was developed fornoninvasive cross-sectional imaging in biological systems which were transparent and turbid in 1991.31
OCT technology was first applied for ophthalmology and then, was expanded for many medical fields.

The

In 1998,

OCT was applied for oral soft and hard tissues including tooth, and it was suggested the potential of the OCT for
diagnosis of periodontal disease, detection of caries, and evaluation of dental restorations.32

There have been

many OCT studies about evaluation of resin cavity interface with various cavity shapes, adhesives, fillingmaterials and restorative techniques.17,27-30

However, there is no research about cavities prepared by the

Er:YAG laser.
The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate cavity adaptation between Er:YAG laser irradiated cavity
and composite resin using a universal type adhesive with different application by means of a swept source OCT(SS-OCT).

Materials and Methods
Materials
The materials used in this study, their manufacturers, code and ingredients were listed in Table 1.

Clearfil

SE Bond (CS, Kuraray Noritake Dental, Tokyo, Japan) is a two-bottle, two-step self-etching adhesive andScotchbond Unversal (SU, 3M ESPE, St.Paul, MN, USA) is a single-bottle “universal type” adhesive which canbe used as self-etching, total etching or selective enamel etching.

In this study, SU was evaluated as

self-etching and selective enamel etching using a phosphoric acid gel (K etchant GEL, Kuraray Noritake Dental)
which contains 40% phosphoric acid.
flowable composite resin.

Estelite Flow Quick (Tokuyama Dental, Tokyo, Japan) is a light-curing

Their chemical compositions showed in Table 1 were information disclosed by the

manufacturers.
Cavity preparation
Forty-eight extracted bovine lower incisors were used in this study.
extraction and were thawed by running tap water.

The teeth were stored frozen after

The crowns were cleaned by removing soft tissues using ascalpel, then crowns and roots were separated by a slow-speed diamond saw.
using 600 grit silicon carbide paper (SiC) to obtain flat surface.

The labial enamel was ground

Then surface was polished up to 1,200 grit SiC.

In order to keep 1 mm thickness of remaining enamel, the amount of removal enamel was determined by a pilot
study.
The bovine samples were divided in two groups of each of 24 specimens.

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surface with approximately 2.5 mm in depth and 4 mm in diameter using a flat-end tapered diamond bur (207R,
Shofu, Kyoto, Japan) and high-speed air-turbine handpiece under water splay coolant.
In another group (laser preparation), a slight smaller size of cavity than that of bur-preparation group was
prepared with same method, then all cavity walls were finished by irradiating an Er:YAG laser (Erwin AdvErl,
J.Morita, Kyoto, Japan) in which the wavelength (λ) is 2.94 µm.

A curved quarts tip (C600F, J.Morita) wasused and irradiation condition was 80 mJ/pulse of output power at the end of the fiber at 20 Hz.
irradiation energy to each cavity was estimated approximately 133 J.

Total

Finally, same shape and size cavities

were achieved in both groups.
Table 1.

Materials used in this study

Material type
Adhesive

Materials, Manufactures, Code
Clearfil SE Bond,
Kuraray Noritake Dental, Tokyo,
Japan,
CS

Ingredients
Primer
HEMA, MDP, hydrophilic aliphatic dimethacrylate,dl-camphorquinone, N,N-diethanol-p-toluidine, water, dyes
Bond
Bis-GMA, HEMA, MDP, hydrophobic aliphatic
methacrylate, silanated colloidal silica, dl-camphorquinone,
N,N-diethanol-p-toluidine

Adhesive

Scotchbond Universal,
3M-ESPE, St.Paul, MN, USA, SU
K-etchant GEL,
Kuraray Noritake Dental
Estelite Flow Quick
Tokuyama Dental, Tokyo, Japan

MDP, dimethacrylate resins, HEMA,
copolymer, filler, ethanol, water, initiators, silane
phosphoric acid 40%,
colloidal silica, water, dyes
UDMA, 2,2'-(methylimino)diethanol, Bis-MPEPP,
camphorquinone, dibutyl hydroxy toluene, mequinol,
TEGDMA, silicazirconia filler, silica-titania filler

Etchant
Flowablecomposite resin

Abbreviations: Bis-GMA, bisphenol A diglycidylmethacrylate; HEMA, 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate;
MDP, 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate; Bis-MPEPP, Bisphenol A polyethoxy methacrylate;
UDMA, 1,6-bis(methacryloyloxyethoxycarbonylamino)trimethylhexane; TEGDMA, triethyleneglycol dimethacrylate

Cavity treatment and restoration
Prepared teeth of each group were further divided in four subgroups in each of six samples (n=6).
used adhesive and cavity treatment in each group were shown in Table 2.

The

Each cavity was treated by Clearfil

SE Bond (CS) or Scochbond Unversal (SU) as self etching (SLF) or selective enamel etching (SEE) as following
procedures.
Table 2.

Experimental group

Group
Preparation
Adhesive
B-CS-SLF
Bur
CS
L-CS-SLF
Laser
CS
B-CS-SEE
Bur
CS
L-CS-SEE
Laser
CS
B-SU-SLF
Bur
SU
L-SU-SLF
Laser
SU
B-SU-SEE
Bur
SU
L-SU-SEE
Laser
SU
CS, Clearfil SE Bond; SU, Scotchbond Universal

Selective etching
Self-etching
Self-etching
Selective enamel etching
Selective enamel etching
Self-etching
Self-etching
Selective enamel etching
Selective enamel etching

For B-CS-SLF and L-CS-SLF groups, Primer of CS was applied by a disposable small brush.
leaving for 20 s without rinse, the cavity was dried with mild air from an air-water syringe.

After

Bond of CS wascoated by a small brush distributing evenly with gently air flow and then, light cured for 10 s by a halogen
light-curing unit (Optilux 501, SDS Kerr, Middleton, WI, USA) with intensity of 900 mW/cm2.

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and L-CS-SEE groups, K-etchant GEL was applied on the enamel in the cavity with a disposable small brush.
After 60 s, the cavity was washed thoroughly and dried with an air-water syringe.
etching, the cavity was treated by CS as same as the cavities of CS-SLF groups.
groups, cavities were treated by SU as self-etching.

After selective enamel

For B-SU-SLF and L-SU-SLF

SU was applied in each cavity by a small brush.

After 20s, the cavity was dried by a gentle stream of air over the liquid for about 5 s until it no longer moves and thesolvent was evaporated completely, then light cured for 10 s by a light-curing unit.

For B-SU-SEE and L-

SU-SEE groups, each cavity was selective enamel etched by K-etchant GEL as same as the cavities of CS-SEE
groups.

Then, cavities were treated with SU as same as SU-SLF groups.

After treatment by CS or SU, a flowable composite resin (Estelite Flow Quick) was directly filled from thesyringe into the cavity and photo cured for 20 s.

After storage in tap water for 24 hours at 37°C, sample wasanalyzed by an SS-OCT.
Image analysis by SS-OCTThe SS-OCT system (IVS-2000, Santec, Komaki, Japan) used in this study was a frequency-domain OCT
which had the same setup components as previous reports.33,34

The light source of a high-speed frequency

swept external cavity laser sweeps the wavelength between 1,260 nm to 1,360 nm (central wavelength 1,319 nm)
at 20 kHz sweep rate.

The probe power is less than 5 mW, which is less than safety limit defined by American

National Standards Institute.
resolution is 17 nm.

The axial resolution of this SS-OCT system is 7 um for tooth and the lateral

Cross sectional images which were grayscale images with 2,001×1,019 pixels weresynthesized from A-scan data which is direction of light source and B-scan data which is direction of scan.
Each B-scan corresponded to an image, 8×6.6 mm in x, z dimensions (2,001×1,019 pixels), obtained inapproximately 100 ms.
Each sample was positioned and fixed on the stage perpendicularly to the scanning probe of the SS-OCT
and tomographic images were taken by the SS-OCT.
the restoration were obtained.

The 2-D raw tomograms cross-cut through the center of

Six images were obtained rotated 30° in each on x-y dimension.

image through the center of the restoration with different direction were taken.

Finally, six

Percentages of gap-formedinterface of enamel (GIE) and dentin (GID) were calculated from each OCT image by following procedure.27,30
Obtained crosscut images were imported to an image analyzing software (ImageJ 1.45, NIH, Bethesda, MD,USA) and a median filter was applied to decrease background noise.

The grayscale OCT image was converted

to the binary image (black and white image) based on a threshold determined automatically using an algorithm.
On the binary image, the length of each bright cluster along the resin-enamel interface and the resin-dentin
interface at the cavity wall was calculated by means of counting bright pixels.

GIE and GID were calculated

according to the following equation:
GIE or GID (%) = (total length of bright clusters at enamel or dentin) × 100 / (length of the enamel or dentin
cavity wall at that slice)
Statistical analysis
The data were subjected to analysis of normality to select a parametric test.

Average GIE and GID of eachgroup were then statistically analyzed using three-way and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed bymultiple comparisons using Tukey HSD correction.

All the analyses were performed using the statisticalpackage software (IBM SPSS Statistics 21.0, IBM, Armonk, NY, USA).

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Results
The average and standard deviation of GIE and GID in each experimental group were shown in Table 3 and4 respectively.

Typical OCT images of each group were shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

Table 3. Gap-formed interface of enamel (GIE)

Table 4. Gap-formed interface of dentin (GID)

Bur
Laser
CS-SLF18.2 (4.4) a,b
15.4 (3.8) a,ba
CS-SEE
11.5 (4.8)
15.0 (4.4) a,bc
SU-SLF26.4 (4.9)
19.9 (2.4) b,ca,bSU-SEE13.9 (4.4)
16.0 (4.8) a,b
average (%) and SD
Same superscripts showed no statistical differences.

Bur
Laser
CS-SLF
8.6 (5.3) a
18.4 (9.2) aaCS-SEE
12.6 (7.5)
18.0 (14.5) aa,bSU-SLF22.6 (18.1)
44.5 (11.8) b,cb,cSU-SEE
47.7 (16.3)
54.6 (21.2) caverage (%) and SD
Same superscripts showed no statistical differences.

At the enamel interface, there were no statistical differences between bur preparation and laser preparationgroups.

Three way ANOVA revealed the statistical differences between self-etching groups and selective

enamel etching groups (p=0.000) and between adhesives (p=0.002).
formation than B-SU-SLF.

B-SU-SEE showed statistical less gap

At enamel interface, gap formation was found at both cavo-surface marginal area

and the deeper area close to dentino-enamel junction.

Fig. 1 Typical SS-OCT images of CS groups
a, Bur-prepared CS-SLF group; b, Laser-prepared CS-SLF group; c, Bur-prepared CS-SEE group;d, Laser-prepared; CS-SEE group; E, enamel, D, dentin; R, composite resin

At the dentin interfaces, statistical differences could not find between each bur preparation and laser
preparation group and between each SLF and SEE group by Tukey HSD correction.

Comparing adhesive

groups, CS groups showed lower GID score than SU groups except between B-CS-SLF and B-SU-SLF groups.
At dentin interface, gap formation was more often observed at pulpal walls, as compared to lateral walls.

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Fig. 2 Typical SS-OCT images of SU groups
a, Bur-prepared SU-SLF group; b, Laser-prepared SU-SLF group; c, Bur-prepared SU-SEE group;d, Laser-prepared SU-SEE group; E, enamel; D, dentin; R, composite resin

Discussion
The mechanism of dental hard tissue removal by the Er:YAG laser is quite different from that by a rotary
cutting instrument.
hydroxyapatite.

The wavelength of Er:YAG laser (λ=2.94 µm) is well absorbed by water andWhen the Er:YAG laser is irradiated and the molecules of the water in the tooth becomesuperheated, “microexplosion” is occurred dividing the surrounding tissue into very small pieces and blowing
them apart.35

Also, the morphologies of prepared enamel and dentin surfaces are different between rotary

cutting instrument and Er:YAG laser ablation.
varied by the types of used burs.

14

The cut surfaces of enamel by rotary cutting instruments are

In this study, bur prepared groups used a regular-grit diamond bur.

The

enamel prepared by the regular-grit diamond bur exhibited as rough and small enamel fragments were observed
by a light microscope.14

The enamel surface irradiated by Er:YAG laser was chalky and irregular.16

Micromorphology of the Er:YAG laser-treated enamel depicted a retentive pattern similar to acid etched enamel
and the anatomical features of enamel rods were preserved.35

The dentin surfaces prepared by a rotary cutting

instrument was covered with a smear layer and the thickness of smear layer affected the bonding.11

The dentin

surfaces irradiated by Er:YAG laser were irregular, scaly or flaky and dentinal tubules were opened without
smear layer.36

Vaporization of intertubular dentin is greater than that of peritubular dentin, showing a

protrusion of the dentinal tubules with a cuff-like appearance.35

Although the dentin surface irradiated by37

this surface and subsurface contained acid

Er:YAG laser seems to increases restorative material retention,
resistant layer and acid vulnerable layer.

36

Those characteristic surface and subsuraface layer of prepared

enamel and dentin would affect the bonding to resin, consequently gap formation.
laser prepared groups, there were no statistical difference.

Comparing bur prepared andIn this study, laser preparation did not show

improving nor interfering adaptability of resin cavity interface.
In laser prepared groups, cavity was prepared by diamond bur followed by Er:YAG laser.

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very difficult to prepare cylindrical cavity using laser alone.

Since the laser was irradiated sufficiently, theablated cavity surface was thought to be same as that by prepared using laser alone.
large size of cavities were prepared because of technical reason.
emphasized.

In this study, relatively

Consequently, the gap formation might be

The cavities were restored with a flowable composite resin.

Flowable composites can be easily

inserted into small cavities and are expected to demonstrate better adaptation to the internal cavity wallcompared to the conventional restorative composites which are more viscous.38
contact with cavity wall and the gap formation by technical error is reduced.

Because low viscosity is wellIn this study, samples were stored

without any loading, such as thermal stress or mechanical loading which might affect the results of theexperiment.

Although it was reported that the thermal cycling had no deleterious effect on the bonding efficacy

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of SU, further study should be necessary about the effect of those loading stress on the results.

Enamel anddentin have quite different property and they showed different bond strength and adaptation to resin restorations.
In this study, gap formation was evaluated in enamel and dentin cavity walls individually.
well adopted the purpose of this study.

It was seemed to be

For evaluation of sealing and adaptability between cavity andrestoration, dye penetration tests with optical microscope,14,16,26,38,39 observation by scanning electron microscope(SEM)20,25 or confocal scanning laser microscope (CSLM)27,28,30 were often used.

For these methods, thesection of samples is necessary and damage is inevitable during the process of sample preparation.

The

SS-OCT used in this study showed a remarkable capability in detection and quantifying microgaps under the
restorations non-invasively.27
An SS-OCT was employed in this study.

The early OCT imaging system was time-domain OCT(TD-OCT) in which a reference mirror is translated to match the optical path from reflections within thesample.31,40

Afterwards, several researchers used different types of OCT systems for research and diagnosis ofdental diseases, including periodontal diseases and early caries lesions.33,34,41,42

Since Fourier domain OCT(FD-OCT) is no need for moving parts to obtain the axial scans, image scan speed of FD-OCT is faster than
TD-OCT with better sensitivity and less noise.40,43
and Swept source OCT (SS-OCT).

FD-OCT has two types; Spectral domain OCT (SD-OCT)

Although SD-OCT is better at stability of signal, SS-OCT is faster than

SD-OCT in scan speed, which means less effectiveness against motion artifact, signal loss in depth is less.

The

SS-OCT is one of the most recent implements of the spectral discrimination, using a wavelength-tuned laser as
the light source and providing improved imaging resolution and scanning speed.40

Although an axial resolutionof SS-OCT is 11 µm, the gap formation with a few micrometers can be detected.

Because the Fresnel

reflections at the gaps were detected even when the gaps were as small as half a micrometer in height, which iswell below the SS-OCT axial optical resolution (11 µm) and vertical dimension of each image pixel (6.48µm).17,27,42

In this study, the bright clusters along the interface in OCT image was recognized as the gap

formation.

The observation of the resin-cavity interface by OCT is relatively new technique.

Many previous

study already reported relationship between the bright clusters and the gap formation comparing the image ofcrosscut surfaces by CSLM.17,27,28,30

Those studies examined the tooth-resin restoration interface at the cavity

floor of the restored teeth by SS-OCT and compared the findings with CLSM.

Increased SS-OCT signal

intensity along the interface corresponded well to the interfacial gaps detected by CLSM.

Since the gap

detection technique by OCT is thought to be established, another method was not used and compared in thisstudy.

SS-OCT is a high-resolution, cross sectional imaging technique that permits instant non-invasive

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patients clinically.27

The SS-OCT used in this study has a potential of clinical usage.

For the future, gap

formation of restoration will be able to be detected by SS-OCT clinically and it will improve quality of resin
restoration in operative dentistry.
Bond strength studies on Er:YAG-lased tooth substrate reported in the literature are often confusing andcontradictory.35

Some studies reported the advantage of Er:YAG laser irradiation for bonding to dentin.9,19,24

Also, Er:YAG laser was likely to improve the resistance of resin dentin interface to acid-base challenge.44
However, others reported that the Er:YAG laser irradiation showed significantly lower bond strengths todentin12,13,15,21 or bond strength values obtained in bur-prepared samples were similar to those of Er:YAG laser
values in terms of initial periods of evaluation.8,18

Although the total-etch adhesive bonded significantly lesseffectively to lased than to bur-cut enamel and laser conditioning was clearly less effective than acid etching,12,13
the self-etch adhesive performed equally to lased and bur-cut enamel surfaces.12 There are many factors which
affect bond strength and gap formation of lased enamel and dentin in the cavities; e.g. condition of laser
irradiation (wavelength, output power, irradiation energy, and water supply), used adhesive and composite resin,
restorative technique, and experimental design.

The differences of those factors might result in varied results.

Two different types of two-step adhesive systems were developed from three step systems including
etching, priming and bonding.

One is the total etching adhesive combined priming and bonding and another isthe self-etching adhesive system combined with etching and priming.

Self-etching systems were further

simplified to one-bottle one-step systems combined self-etching and bonding.

Self-etching adhesive systems

7,10

Generally, the etching property of self-etching bonding

systems is milder compared to total etching systems.

CS was categorized as a “mild” self-etching adhesive7

have been often argued about bonding to enamel.
with pH 2.0 by the manufacture’s information.

When bonding to enamel, an etch and rinse approach ispreferred, with micro-mechanical interaction to achieve a durable bond to enamel.
mild self-etching approach is superior.
enamel etching.

7

When bonding to dentin, a

In 8-years clinical study, CS showed excellent result using as selective

Altogether, when bonding to both enamel and dentin, selective etching of enamel followed by

the application of the 2-step self-etching adhesive to both enamel and dentin currently appears the best choice toeffectively and durably bond to tooth tissue.7
etching.

However, the manufacturer of CS does not recommend selective

Because the functional monomer; 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate (MDP) contributes

for both enamel and dentin with a strong chemical bond with the hydroxyapatite.

The acidity of theself-etching primer is designed for the simultaneous treatment of both enamel and dentin layers in one step.
Generally, etching to uncut enamel is necessary for self-etching primer adhesives.10

In this study, there were no

statistical differences between GIEs of CS-SLF and CS-SEE in both bur-prepared and laser prepared groups.
Recently, another type of one-bottle adhesive was launched, called “universal type” which can be applied as
total etching, self-etching and selective enamel etching.

In this study, one universal type adhesive was

evaluated as self-etching and selective enamel etching comparing to an established two-bottle two-step
self-etching adhesive system.

SU is categorized as “ultramild”7 with pH 2.7 by manufacture’s information.

The SU demonstrated an uneven hybrid layer with clearly demineralized collagen bundles at dentin-resin
interface by using a focused ionbeam milling and transmission electron microscope and was validated in termsof its capability in dentin adhesion.25

Although etching did not affected the dentin bond strength of SU,22,23

preliminary etching of enamel significantly increased bond strength for this new one-step multimode adhesive
SU and two-step self-etching adhesive CS.20

B-SU-SEE group showed less GIE than B-SU-SLF group.

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suggested that the selective enamel etching is recommended for the universal type adhesive.

Although there

were relatively large differences of mean value of GID in some groups, statistical difference was not foundbetween GIDs of SLF and SEE groups.
bonding to dentin.

From those results, selective enamel etching would not hinder the

Because of simple procedure and multi usage, universal type adhesives may be clinicallyuseful and convenient, which should induce low technique sensitivity.

It is noteworthy that only one productwas evaluated in this study and it is difficult to generalize the result for all universal adhesives.

Further study

should be necessary about other universal type adhesives.
Within the limitation of this study, it could be concluded that a universal type adhesive showed comparable
adaptability to tooth substrate prepared by bur and laser, and selective enamel etching improved adaptation toenamel in case of a universal type adhesive. A two-step self-etch adhesive showed better adaptation on lased
dentin.
Acknowledgments
This research was partially supported by a Research Grant for Longevity Sciences (21A-8) from Ministry of Health,
Labor and Welfare. The funding sources had no involvement in conducting and reporting the study. The adhesivematerials and the composite used in the experiment were each donated for research by their respective manufacturer. The
authors report no conflicts of interest related to this study.

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Correspondence to:Dr. Masayuki Otsuki
Department of Cariology and Operative Dentistry, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences,
Tokyo Medical and Dental University
1-5-45, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8549, Japan
Fax: +81-3-5803-0195 E-mail: otsuki.ope@tmd.ac.jp
Accepted November 28, 2015.
Copyright ©2015 by the Asian Pacific Journal of Dentistry.
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