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Preface - Book Series

Resin materials are broadly used in dentistry for almost all indications and they will gain even more importance in future. Especially the increasing performance and efficiency of CAD/CAM technology and 3D-printing open possibilities to use resins not used up to now for dental applications. Besides of dentists, dental technicians, dental students, teachers of dental universities/schools, postgraduate students and PhD candidates there are many other specialists such as researchers, material scientists, industrial developers or experts of adjoining professional disciplines who are technically engaged in dental resins. Mainly two reasons are responsible for this interest: a) many persons dealing with dentistry feel a large desire for deeper knowledge in dental resins, b) the knowledge of many different specialists is requested to develop, to investigate, to test and to evaluate dental resins; c) dental resins offer very sophisticated highly developed properties so that they are also used in other disciplines for other purposes or are the base to develop tailor-made products for other very special non-dental applications.

The idea of this e-Book is to present a three-level textbook dealing with material science and technology of dental resins. The Basic Level addresses students, dental technicians, teachers or all those interested in dental resins. The Basic Level gives a comprehensive insight into chemistry, physics and toxicology of dental resins and their technical application. The Advanced Level broadens the information of the Basic Level significantly and mainly addresses teachers of dental universities/schools, postgraduate students, PhD candidates, researchers, material scientists, industrial developers or experts of adjoining professional disciplines. The Expert Level gives a very deep insight into the science of dental resins and mainly addresses scientists doing research on dental resins, industrial developers or scientists of adjoining professional disciplines who are very strongly interested to become also specialists in dental resin material science.

Contrarily to print books, it is the great advantage of e-Books that improvements, corrections, additions or enhancements can be done swiftly so that new improved editions can be produced and distributed rapidly and cheaply. Therefore, the e-Book is the ideal format to update the content immediately whenever errors or mistakes must be eliminated or the scientific progress makes it necessary. It is the desired and planned scenario that the content of this e-Book will not become obsolete as fast as it usually happens with conventional print books but will be refreshed in shorter periods of time.

Illustrations and tables will increase in number with each level. The information they give is - hopefully - clear and understandable but certainly they will not become prettier or colored. This is a low-cost book and everything is done keeping costs to a minimum.

The author is aware that there will be errors, inaccuracies and ambiguousness but hopefully no incorrect or even misleading information in the text despite of all the care taken. The honorable readership is kindly asked for understanding and the author will be very grateful for any hints and proposals to improve the content of the book or the book at all. Therefore, every type of constructive criticism will be highly appreciated.

Having said all this, I hope you will enjoy the book and you will get the information that is helpful and valuable for you and your work.

Many thanks and best regards

Ralf