Alfons Schmidseder, master dental technician and inventor of the Cerapress Systems, Aschau, Germany, deserves my thanks for his contributions to the chapters All-Ceramic Systems—Clinical Aspects of the All-Ceramic Crown and Ceramic Inlays.
Dr Roger Naef, senior assistant, Nicola Pietrobon, chief dental technician, and Dr. Peter Schärer, Professor and Director, all at the clinic for Crown and Bridge Prosthodontics, Partial Prosthodontics, and Dental Materials at the Center for Tooth, Mouth, and Jaw Medicine, University of Zurich, wrote the chapter The Celay System.
Christian E Besimo, Docent Private Practice, and Professor (Eng.) George Graber, both at the Clinic for Prosthodontics and Occlusion at the Dental Center, University of Basel, Switzerland, are the authors of the chapter CAD/CAM in Restorative Dentistry.
Dr. Urs C Belser, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Section of Dental Medicine, University of Geneva, Switzerland, contributed to the chapter Aesthetics in Implantology.
Richard V Tucker, DDS, Washington, was involved in work on the chapter Cast Gold Restorations.
Lester Machado, MD, DDS, FRCS (Ed), specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery, and Frank Pavel, both from the San Diego Center for Corrective Jaw & Facial Surgery, developed the chapter Aesthetic Facial Surgery.
For their support with the production of this atlas I thank the following companies: Heraeus Kulzer, Wehrheim, Germany; Ultra-Dent; Bisco, Itasca; 3M Medica, Borken; Dentsply.
Dr. Andrea Beilmann, Dr. Marc T Sebastian, and Ms. Janette Schröder are thanked for their editorial support in both streamlining the manuscripts and correcting the individual stages.
My special thanks for support provided during the development of the manuscript go to the editors of the series Color Atlases of Dental Medicine, Prof. Dr. KH Rateitschak and Dr. HF Wolf.
To conclude, I thank the co-workers at Georg Thieme Verlag: Dr. C Urbanowicz, Mr. Gert Krüger, Ms. Joanne Stead, and Clifford Bergman, MD for their patient and supportive cooperation.
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* As expressed by the author Charles F DeFreest, the opinions in this essay are solely those of the author and do not represent the official policy of the US Department of Defense or any other ministry of the United States of America.
Table of Contents
Evolution of Artificial Tooth Replacements From an Aesthetic Point of View
H. Claus
The Long Road to Individual, Functional Tooth Replacements
–Biocompatibility and Aesthetics
–Additional All Ceramic Systems
Basic Principles of Aesthetic Dentistry
J. Schmidseder, K. B. Frazier, M. Wawra
Caries as an Infectious Disease and How It Can Be Prevented
Aesthetic Dentistry—A Treatment Concept
–The Necessity of Caring for Aesthetic Restorations
Professional Tooth Cleaning in Patients with Aesthetic Restorations
–Scaling using Powered Instruments
–Home Care—Patients with Aesthetic Restorations
Checklist—Dentist and Checklist—Patient
J. Schmidseder, R. F. Murray
–Instant Camera (Polaroid System)
–35-mm Photo Systems and APS System
–Digital Camera Systems—Criteria for Selection
–Technical Prerequisites for Digital Photography
G. J. Christensen,