CERAMICS: work horse of esthetic dentistry

Ceramics have been used from the medieval period. Down the ages they have under gone tremendous transformations . These transformations have improved their applications in various areas of restorative dentistry.Dental ceramic technology is one of the fastest growing areas of dental material research and development. Understand dental ceramics in simple manner starting from historical events ,structure , composition and manipulation. Understanding how to strengethen ceramics and learn to apply your knowledge regarding new systems in market with best results in clinical setting. Systems such as Dicor and empress are now established and data regarding the in vitro and in vivo performance of such restorations have been reported widely. Modifications to several systems have been suggested on introduced to over come certain disadvantages. The potential of the in-ceram system, remains to be exploited to the full. The diversity and sophistication of some of the CAD-CAM systems may prove to be influential in the future. To this day ceramics in their various forms remain the "work horse" of restorative dental practice.