Dental cement composition comprising (i) a particulate filler reactive with a polyacid in a cement reaction (ii) a water-soluble polymerizable compound of the following formula (1), €ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ AX n €ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ€ƒ(1) wherein A is a linker group containing at least n nitrogen atoms and optionally one or more acidic groups, X are moieties containing a polymerizable double bond and forming an amide bond with a nitrogen atom of A, which X may be the same or different and are represented by the following formula (2) wherein R 1 and R 2 are independent from each other and represent a hydrogen atom, a C 1-6 alkyl group or a group -(CH 2 ) m -COOM, wherein M is a hydrogen atom or a metal atom, and m is an integer of from 0 to 6, L is a bond or a C 1-6 alkylene group and n is an integer of at least 1 provided that at least one X cannot be a (meth)acryl group and (iii) an initiator system optionally a polyacidic polymer having polymerizable double bonds and optionally water.
