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Florin-Eugen                               Digital Restorative Dentistry
Constantinescu
DMD, PhD Student
                                           A Guide to Materials, Equipment,
Holistic Dental & Medical Institute
of Bucharest - ROPOSTURO
                                           and Clinical Procedures
Bucharest, Romania
e-mail:                                      Editors: Faleh Tamimi, Hiroshi Hirayama
dr.florin.constantinescu@gmail.com           Publisher: Springer Nature, Switzerland
                                             Language: English
                                             ISBN: 978-3-030-15974-0
      Books Review

                                             Edition: 1/e
                                             Publish Year: 2019
                                             Pages: 247, illustrated
                                             Price: € 106.99




                                      The industrial revolution introduced the daily dental technologies in the digital practice as well as the corres-
                                      ponding restoration materials.
                                      Faleh Tamimi and Hiroshi Hirayama, editors of the Digital Restorative Dentistry aim to present it as a guide
                                      on this topic regarding the materials, equipment and clinical procedures used in restorative dentistry.
                                      The book is divided into two parts, along eleven chapters.
                                      After a first introductory chapter, the three chapters of the first part, Equipment, cover digitalization (dental
                                      photography, digital radiology, digital spectrophotometers, extra- and intra- oral scanners, digital stereopho-
                                      togrammetry, jaw motion tracking, facial scanning, cone beam computerize tomography), computer-aid de-
                                      sign (2D photography, 3D design, virtual tools and CAD software) and fabrication of digital dental restoration.
                                      The fabrication of dental restoration using digital technologies allows us to become acquainted with the tech-
                                      niques and materials necessary to perform the restorations, by means of subtractive or additive techniques. In
                                      turn, the seven chapters of the second part, Clinical procedures, describe a series of clinical procedures which
                                      use the digital technology: partially denture, complete denture, fixed restoration, CAD/CAM, digital implant
                                      surgery, digital implant prosthodontics, digital technologies in endodontics.
                                      Each of these chapters contains an introductory part, and also the advantages and limitations of using digital
                                      processes.
                                      All the chapters are accompanied by a rich iconography and up-to-date references.
                                      The editors manage to fill a gap in the literature, presenting the latest digital restorative dentistry related
                                      attainments and technologies covering the dental technological revolution, for both dental practitioners and
                                      dental students.




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         72                           Stoma Edu J. 2020;7(1):72                                                  pISSN 2360-2406; eISSN 2502-0285