**5. Conclusion**

For over 200 years, ceramic materials have been utilized in dentistry. This chapter shows that dental ceramics can be fabricated by different techniques. The CAD/CAM technology is the most widely used in dentistry.

Dentistry as an art of oral health is one of the major affiliates of dental science. Operative dentistry continues to evolve toward bright future with the innovations and development of new materials, techniques, and equipments. Several numbers of dental ceramic materials have been developed with respect to strength, survival, applications, and esthetics. The success of dental ceramic materials depends on various factors like design, type of material, cementation media, clinical data, etc. These factors help the dentist to enhances the relation between laboratory studies and clinical data and to choice the appropriate ceramic material.

Although the remarkable evolution of ceramics in dentistry not all the challenges have been solved.
