Rubber-dam - a blessing not only in the Covid-19 era

It is one of the big mysteries in adhesive dentistry that the majority of dentists all over the world seem to per ceive rubber-dam as burdensome obligation. Although the benefits of rubber-dam application are taught in every dental school, even in the course of thousands of CE lectures held by hundreds of opinion leaders, it has not been possible to significantly change this. From our point of view, it is rather simple – it is so much easier to perform adhesive dentistry properly under rubber-dam application. Period. It is an excellent standard, used in several cutting-edge clinical papers all over the globe.5 Of course, it’s not how you isolate the working field that’s most important, but that you isolate it, and this is just easier when you use rubber-dam. And to be honest, given a certain number of resin composite restorations placed, 50% with and 50% without rubber-dam, which group performs better? © 2021. Journal of Adhesive Dentistry. All Rights Reserved.