Prosthodontics: Current Clinical Trends and Future Directions

Dear Colleagues,

The general trend towards personalized medicine will further increase the diversity of materials and treatments in dental prosthetics as well. The driving force in the future will be the desire for improved facial esthetics, which is significantly influenced by the teeth. The integration of digital intraoral and extraoral surface images as well as three-dimensional imaging already allow treatment options and their impact on facial esthetics to be more visualizable, more precisely plannable, and more reliably achievable. In order to stabilize the treatment result, functional aspects will be incorporated even more strongly into the creation of dental restorations in the future. Digital articulators have been successfully integrated into the design software for dental restorations in recent years and now allow the complex individual movements of the mandible to be taken into account in the design. In addition to the innovations in computer-aided subtractive milling technology, we can look forward with anticipation to the developments in computer-aided additive manufacturing technologies. The printing of hybrid materials and ceramic dentures seem to allow completely new possibilities regarding design geometries. These aspects open up new indication areas for minimally invasive concepts. The same was true of all-ceramic zirconia restorations just a few years ago. We are now curious to see the long-term clinical performance of the various oxide ceramic generations. For this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit contributions on the current clinical progress of dental prosthodontics in the field of digital treatment options and testing of modern materials for dental restorations.

Prof. Dr. Jeremias Hey
Guest Editor

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