Table 3.

Fluid conductance across dentin before and after bonding.

	% Fluid flow compared to acid-etched controls
Adhesives self-etch	Smear layer covered	Bonded dentin
Adper Prompt^a	17.3 ± 4.5^A	28.3 ± 4.4^A
Xeno III^f	12.4 ± 6.2^A	24.2 ± 2.9^A,B
iBondⁱ	15.1 ± 5.6^A	18.7 ± 3.3^B
One-Up Bond F^k	14.0 ± 3.1^A	14.9 ± 5.0^B
Two-step
Unifil Bond^d	18.2 ± 5.0^A	2.1 ± 2.1^C

Groups identified by different superscript letters are significantly different (p<0.05) (from Chersoni et al.³⁶, with permission).