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Ceramics: the future material of choice for tooth replacement?

 An interview with Joachim Maier, Master Dental Technician, Germany.

Ceramics play a major role in modern dentistry. What makes them so important? The discovery that high-performance ceramics could be used in dental engineering was made more than ten years ago, when zirconium oxide had proven to be highly resilient in extreme conditions, for instance in hip prostheses, or in motor vehicle brakes. [...]

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