Dental Ceramics

Man has been obsessed with duplicating, restoring and replacing various lost body parts like the limbs, ear, nose and eyes with artificial prosthesis and teeth being no exception. Restoration of teeth is not recent but ancient, dating back to 1st century Roman B.C. Many materials have been used to restore and replace a lost tooth or a part of it, of these ivories was popular but not without its disadvantages. The quest for an artificial prosthesis similar to the nature tooth, both in function and esthetics, in the oral environment still remains as a foremost concern to the dentist, which has led to the use of CERAMICS in dentistry. This book brings out the importance of ceramic as framework materials and the increasing popularity and variety of CAD-CAM systems which seem to mutually accelerate newer trends.