How to qualify and validate wear simulation devices and methods.

TL;DR: Milling zirconia to full-contour with glazed surface might be an alternative to traditionally veneered restorations in terms of light-transmission, contact wear (restoration and antagonist) and load-bearing capacity.

TL;DR: This project review and critically appraise methods to determine fracture, deformation and wear resistance of dental resin composites in an attempt to provide guidance for investigators endeavoring to study these properties for these materials.

TL;DR: The set-up that consists of unprepared enamel of molar cusps against glazed crowns seems to be the most appropriate method to evaluate a ceramic material with regard to antagonist wear, however, due to the high variability of results large sample sizes are necessary to differentiate between materials, which calls the whole in vitro approach into question.

TL;DR: The anatomy and function of human teeth is presented in brief, three types of current artificial dental materials are summarized, and their advantages and disadvantages, as well as typical clinical applications, are compared based on the literature.

TL;DR: Dental literature, predominantly since 1990, was reviewed for longitudinal, controlled clinical studies and retrospective cross-sectional studies of posterior restorations and principal reasons for failure were secondary caries, fracture, marginal deficiencies, wear and postoperative sensitivity.

TL;DR: The principal reasons for failure were secondary caries, fracture, marginal deficiencies, wear, and postoperative sensitivity in posterior stress-bearing posterior cavities.

TL;DR: Interestingly, thermocycling P-50 with an upper temperature limit of 50 degrees C had catastrophic consequences upon the measured properties, and it is concluded that some of the observed behaviour may have potentially detrimental implications upon the long-term clinical durability of the materials tested.

TL;DR: The wear of ceramic inlay materials and antagonist enamel cups was measured in vitro and the wear in the occlusal contact area was quantified during and at the end of the test with a three-dimensional scanner.