Main description:

Customized All-Ceramic Dental Prostheses: A Graphic Introduction to Advanced Materials and Procedures presents a full, cross-disciplinary map to customized, all-ceramic, dental prostheses commonly used in dentistry nowadays. Their application for repairing damaged teeth or restoring the lost teeth of patients comprises many steps of a cross-disciplinary nature. The book explores materials processes and clinical procedures, and integrates fundamental understanding with real practices. A unique approach to photographic illustration makes the book easy to understand, even for non-specialists. This valuable reference is suitable for dentists, dental technicians, dental students, materials developers and students, and dental patients alike.

Contents:

Part I Tooth and tooth defects 1. Structure of tooth 2. Common defects and damages of tooth hard tissue Part II Materials science and engineering foundation of customized all-ceramic dental prostheses 3. Chemical compositions and cross-scale structures of ceramics 4. The relationship between properties of ceramic components and their compositions and structures 5. Process of customized all-ceramic dental prostheses Part III Customized all-ceramic dental prostheses supported by natural teeth 6. Restorations of tooth defects 7. Restorations of tooth loss Part IV Customized all-ceramic dental prostheses supported by dental implants 8. Principles of implantation 9. The biological basis of implantation 10. Clinical procedure and operation mode of implantation 11. Supra-structure of dental implants Part V Clinical failures and their common origins of all-ceramic dental prostheses 12. Common types of clinical failures of all-ceramic dental prostheses 13. Fractographic analysis methods of all-ceramic dental prostheses 14. Materials view of the failures of all-ceramic dental prostheses 15. Patient experience on all-ceramic dental restorations