Dental CAD/CAM System Used in Prosthetic Dentistry

Abstract

Conventional dental prostheses have been fabricated with complicated laboratory steps. Even if the prostheses with high accuracy could be made with the development and improvement of dental materials and technologies, the fabrication was still technically sensitive and was influenced by the skill of dental technicians. With the recent development of computer technologies and mechanical engeneerings, the dental CAD/CAM systems have been developed to fabricate the dental prostheses with high quality and less manipulation. In this paper, the dental CAD/CAM systems developed in the world were introduced to understand the basic concept of CAD/CAM process.
Furthermore, the new system developed by us to fabricate a ceramic crown automatically was introduced.