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The growth of implant and fixed prosthodontics practices in dentistry has created a rapidly increasing demand for advanced ceramics and ceramic processes. Innovations in ceramics and ceramic processes are vital to ensure reliable and affordable dental-restoration solutions with aesthetically pleasing outcomes. The work aims to engage the bioceramics and engineering communities to meet the challenges of modern dental restoration using advanced ceramics. Incorporating fundamental science, advanced engineering concepts, and clinical outcomes, the work is suitable for bioceramicists, ceramics manufacturers, dental clinicians and biologists. State-of-the-art-coverage encompasses bioresorbable ceramics for bone regeneration and bioactivating surfaces of inert, high-strength ceramics for implantation, keeping research knowledge appropriately updatedDiscusses transition from the baseline stable and physically stiff ceramics research into engineering of highly coherent laminate composites for prosthetic crowns and bridgesShowcases current feasible techniques for producing, in cost-effective and materials-saving ways, long-lasting individualized ceramic components with biocompatibility, complexity and high precision.

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1. Introduction / James Zhijian Shen and Tomaz Kosmac -- 2. Teeth / Haifeng Chen and Yihong Liu -- 3. Dental prostheses / Jing Zhao and Xinzhi Wang -- 4. Dental implants / Belinda Reinhardt and Thomas Beikler -- 5. Clinical failures of ceramic dental prostheses / Yihong Liu and James Zhijian Shen -- 6. Advanced ceramics / David Salamon -- 7. Advanced ceramic processes / Martin Trunec and Karel Maca -- 8. Microstructure characterization of advanced ceramics / Saso Sturm and Bostjan Jancar -- 9. Mechanical properties and reliability of advanced ceramics / Tanja Lube and Robert Danzer -- 10. Interfaces between tissues and ceramics / Peter Schupbach -- 11. Alumina- and zirconia-based ceramics for load-bearing applications / Corrado Piconi, Saverio Giovanni Condo and Tomaz Kosmac -- 12. Dental classes and glass-ceramics / Simon Jegou Saint-Jean -- 13. Requirements of bioactive ceramics for dental implants and scaffolds / James Zhijian Shen and Jenny Faldt -- 14. Surface modifications of load-bearing ceramics for improved osseointegration / Martin Stefanic and Tomaz Kosmac -- 15. Industrial-scale production of customized ceramic prostheses / Dag Henrik Bergsjo, Matts Andersson, Rikard Soderberg and Johan Carlson -- 16. Advanced dental-restoration materials : concepts for the future / James Zhijian Shen and Tomaz Kosmac -- 17. Defect minimization in prosthetic ceramics / Erik Adolfsson and James Zhijian Shen -- 18. Advanced direct forming processes for the future / Danjela Kuscer and James Zhijian Shen.

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