China's oral restorative process started late, before 1949 and the early years of the founding of the country, the production of denture institutions, mainly in towns and cities in the "dental museum", most of the "dental museum" also operates photo business, called "photo inlay museum", for decentralized individual operations. "photo inlaid teeth hall", for decentralized self-employment. 1952 ~ 1956 period, the state of private enterprises and institutions, socialist transformation, dental clinics and inlaid teeth hall, are on-site joint, successively composed of municipal and district dental prevention and treatment center. The original dental clinics and dental parlors of the practitioners, are to dental prevention and treatment centers and public hospitals to work in the Department of Stomatology. Before the reform and opening up due to old instruments and equipment, poor material performance, oral restorative technology, slow development. In addition to a few large stomatology department and dental hospital for their own needs, organized a short-term dental technician training courses, there is no specialized school to train restorative dentistry technicians, there is no unified restorative dentistry technology teaching materials. Prosthodontic technicians are mainly trained by master apprenticeship, and the business scope of prosthodontic craftsmanship is also very limited.
After the 1980s, it is the period of rapid development of China's dental restorative craftsmanship profession. The opportunity of reform and opening up, the new theory of oral restoration, new equipment, new materials, new technology, new technology, new technology introduced into our country, which led to the rapid development of the specialty of dental restoration process. Porcelain restoration technology, titanium casting technology, precision attachment technology, implant denture restoration technology, CAD/CAM technology, etc., which represent the latest technology of modern prosthodontics, in our country around the oral health care units, quickly applied and get a certain degree of popularity. The rapid development of prosthodontics process specialization, so that there are a variety of options for denture production. Clinical dentists according to the patient's oral cavity, choose the best restorative design program. Undertake the task of denture production denture production room, must also be followed by professional refinement of the division of labor, that is, according to the different production process to form different professional groups, in order to meet the clinician on the quality of denture production requirements. Various types of restorations production quality, there has been a general improvement, but compared with foreign countries, there is still a large gap.