Introduction to Dental Materials, 5th Edition

Introduction to Dental Materials discusses and explains the science of clinical and laboratory dental materials. It will help you understand the properties, limitations and safe usage of different materials, and how to navigate this rapidly changing field to choose the most appropriate materials for your patients. Written in an engaging and accessible way, and featuring updated images and photographs as well as “clinical relevance” highlights, this book is perfectly tailored to the needs of the busy student of dentistry or dental therapy.

New to this Edition:

• Fully updated content
• Covers modern restorative materials, the extensive uses of 3D printing and CAD-CAM in dentistry.
• Covers modern direct and indirect adhesive systems.
• Provides the evidence base in relation to the decline in use of dental amalgam.
• An enhanced eBook version is included with your purchase. The eBook allows you to access all the text, figures, and references, with the ability to search, customise your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud.