A method for the production of a dental restoration from a blank, which has regions or layers of ceramic materials with differing compositions, comprising: a) Filling of a first layer of a first ceramic material in pourable condition into a mold, b) after filling the first layer forming of at least one first open cavity in the first layer and then filling a second ceramic material into the at least one first open cavity, wherein the ceramic materials contain zirconium dioxide doped with yttrium oxide (Y 2 O 3), and wherein the material of the first layer differs from the material of the second layer in terms of color and proportions of stabilized crystal forms present at room temperature; wherein the material used for the first ceramic material (314, 320) is one in which the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first material is 7.0wt% to 9.5wt% and the percentage of yttrium oxide in the second ceramic material is 4.5wt% to 7.0wt%, wherein the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first ceramic material is higher than that in the second ceramic; c) Pressing of the ceramic materials to form a blank, d) Removal of the blank from the mold, e) Temperature treatment of the blank, wherein in accordance with the method steps a) + b) the ceramic materials are filled into the mold and/or treated in the mold in such a way that layers and/or regions after the temperature treatment exhibit a predetermined course that is available as a digital data set, f) Virtual designing the dental restoration or a form that corresponds to the dental restoration taking shrinkage into account, g) Virtual representation of the blank, positioning of the virtually represented dental restoration or the form in the blank, taking into consideration the material properties of the layers and/or regions, h) Determination of data for the blank that corresponds to the position of the virtually arranged dental restoration or the form in the blank, i) Transfer of the data to a machine to derive the dental restoration or the form from the blank. a) Filling of a first layer of a first ceramic material in pourable condition into a mold, b) after filling the first layer forming of at least one first open cavity in the first layer and then filling a second ceramic material into the at least one first open cavity, wherein the ceramic materials contain zirconium dioxide doped with yttrium oxide (Y 2 O 3), and wherein the material of the first layer differs from the material of the second layer in terms of color and proportions of stabilized crystal forms present at room temperature; wherein the material used for the first ceramic material (314, 320) is one in which the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first material is 7.0wt% to 9.5wt% and the percentage of yttrium oxide in the second ceramic material is 4.5wt% to 7.0wt%, wherein the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first ceramic material is higher than that in the second ceramic; wherein the ceramic materials contain zirconium dioxide doped with yttrium oxide (Y 2 O 3), and wherein the material of the first layer differs from the material of the second layer in terms of color and proportions of stabilized crystal forms present at room temperature; wherein the material used for the first ceramic material (314, 320) is one in which the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first material is 7.0wt% to 9.5wt% and the percentage of yttrium oxide in the second ceramic material is 4.5wt% to 7.0wt%, wherein the percentage of yttrium oxide in the first ceramic material is higher than that in the second ceramic; c) Pressing of the ceramic materials to form a blank, d) Removal of the blank from the mold, e) Temperature treatment of the blank, wherein in accordance with the method steps a) + b) the ceramic materials are filled into the mold and/or treated in the mold in such a way that layers and/or regions after the temperature treatment exhibit a predetermined course that is available as a digital data set, f) Virtual designing the dental restoration or a form that corresponds to the dental restoration taking shrinkage into account, g) Virtual representation of the blank, positioning of the virtually represented dental restoration or the form in the blank, taking into consideration the material properties of the layers and/or regions, h) Determination of data for the blank that corresponds to the position of the virtually arranged dental restoration or the form in the blank, i) Transfer of the data to a machine to derive the dental restoration or the form from the blank.