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Foreword

Dentistry has been facing major changes, and along with this transformation come challenges. A catchphrase would be: evolution will always be accompanied by initial difficulties. Here we are today.

I understand, dear reader, the natural resistance that we have when looking at new directions and techniques, because as human beings, we love a place called the “comfort zone”: a lovely place where nothing happens. My father, a retired dentist, had the same resistance that I see in a large number of colleagues today. In the past, we heard that, if you are used to a technique and material, you shouldn’t change it because it would be working “right” for you. Nothing more wrong and misleading, otherwise, no major evolution would have taken place and we would be using candles instead of electricity because “it’s been working so far.” The future comes in huge waves of change, which initially obviously cause suffering.

The digitalization of dentistry has impacted processes and procedures, as well as workflows and time involved in clinical procedures. Make no mistake: it’s not the future, it’s the present.

I don’t deny that there will always be room for individual talent, superb handicraft, and brilliant creativity in a unique case within our profession. But I believe that all art and creation will be accompanied by a less manually driven process and many digitalization tools, as we have already seen in plastic art and architecture.

This book fills a space in the high‐level literature, related to the processes and techniques of digital dentistry. In a way, it can be a great relief for the difficulty that some professionals have faced in accepting new technologies, an analgesic with an extremely detailed package leaflet. Conceptual resistance can only be dealt with by consistent information. After a long period of COVID and its restrictions and doubts, we know more than ever that only science can overcome old concepts and preconceptions.

Like me, you the reader will be able to reduce doubts and opinions based on concepts that are often outdated, and face the new, with KNOWLEDGE.

Ronaldo Hirata DDS, MS, PhD

Assistant Professor of Biomaterials NYU

Private practice in Curitiba, Brazil

International lecturer with more than 150 papers and four books published