Glass-ionomer cements--clinical usage and experience: 2.

Glass-ionomer cements have unique and varied properties: they are tough, translucent, biologically inert, resistant to degradation in the mouth, adhesive to tooth structure and they inhibit caries. In a number of ways they are probably the one substance available today that most approaches the ideal restorative material. In Part 1 of this two-part article the authors reviewed the physical and clinical properties of glass-ionomer cements, here they go on to describe their use in practical and sometimes novel restorative procedures.