In the last few decades, there have been tremendous advances in the mechanical properties and methods of fabrication of ceramic materials. While, porcelain-based materials are still a major component of the market, there have been moves to replace metal ceramics systems with all ceramic systems. The advances in bonding techniques have increased the range and scope for use of ceramics in dentistry.

MTA is a biocompatible material with numerous exciting clinical applications. It has been used on an experimental basis by dentists for several years with anecdotally reported success, some of it quite impressive. It serves as an ideal root repair material which has qualities like resistance to marginal leakage, allows normal healing response, ease of clinical manipulation and being non- resorbable. And finally the most important quality, especially of interest in our field i.e. it is non-toxic. Biodentine is a fast-setting tricalcium silicate-based material having extended alkalinizing...