This document covers a wide range of topics related to dental materials including wrought alloys, dental implant materials, denture resins and polymers, impression materials, gypsum products, waxes, dental casting investments, alloys, abrasives, basic material properties, corrosion, pulp capping agents, dental cements, dental amalgam, direct gold fillings, bonding agents and composites, and dental ceramics. It provides information on the classification, composition, uses, and procedures for many common dental materials.