Abstract
The additive manufacturing (AM) family of techniques has been developed during the last few decades. The techniques are used in order to fabricate 3D parts, layer-by-layer, directly from CAD data. Instrument development has come to the point where they are now used as production facilities for individually designed components, mostly in the fields of organic polymers and metallic alloys. Application of these techniques to the manufacture of ceramic parts is much more challenging. Its feasibility for the future production of customized ceramic parts in restorative dentistry will be determined by the progress in control of dimensional tolerance, the residual stress, and their characteristic heterogeneous microstructures. This chapter introduces the basic principles of the AM family of techniques.
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