口腔修复涉及临床诊疗流程、个性化修复体定制、医患和医技间信息传递与沟通，甚至对美学的个性理解，是一个跨学科领域。数字化修复以临床需求为牵引，目的在于优化人才与物质资源配置、提高医技工作效率、改善修复效果、提升社会经济效益。数字化战略布局对口腔行业的发展有结构性影响。本文梳理了口腔修复数字化的发展历程，通过区分狭义数字化和广义数字化两大发展阶段，指出将数字化技术作为辅助工具的片面性与局限性，强调数字化理念的战略先导作用和数字化技术的拓新能力。数字化技术助力医患沟通，促进医师与技师信息传递方式的变化，有利于医技资源重整，其在口腔产业升级方面的潜力值得重视。广义的口腔修复数字化将推动口腔修复行业协同共享生态的建立，也是通向口腔医疗智能化的必经之路。“,”To digitalize restorative dentistry means to digitalize all the approaches involved in the clinical diagnosis and treatment process, in the production of individualized restorations, in the information transmission and communication between dentists and patients respectively between dentists and technicians, and even in the personalized understanding of esthetics. This is a cross-disciplinary issue that interconnects a wide range of topics. The way of understanding the digital tendency and of integrating the-already-digitalized steps into a system have a strategic impact on the development of the dental industry. By following the trace of the development of digital procedures in restorative dentistry, in this paper, we intend to classify the digitalization into two categories as the special and general ones, and will point out the limitations in understanding the digitalization in prosthodontics merely from the perspective of diagnosis or the production of individualized restorations. The role of digitalization in leading the conceptual development and the new possibilities opened up by the integrated digital technologies will be emphasized. Digitalization has changed the way of interaction between dentists and technicians. It is beneficial to the reorganization of medical and technological resources. Its potential in upgrading the dental industry deserves attention. Digitalization promotes the establishment of a collaborative and sharing ecosystem in restorative dentistry, which would pave the way towards artificial intelligence.