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 of the first layer, filling a further layer of a further ceramic material in pourable condition into the mold, which differs from the first ceramic material, mixing material of the first layer with the material of the further layer to form an intermediate layer, wherein mixing takes place with an element which at least penetrates into the first layer to a depth which corresponds to the height of the intermediate layer, and then filling a second ceramic material into the mold, wherein the ceramic materials contain zirconium dioxide doped with yttrium oxide (Y 2 O 3), calcium oxide (CaO), magnesium oxide (MgO) and/or cerium oxide (CeO 2), 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, 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 pre-determined 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 of the first layer, filling a further layer of a further ceramic material in pourable condition into the mold, which differs from the first ceramic material, mixing material of the first layer with the material of the further layer to form an intermediate layer, wherein mixing takes place with an element which at least penetrates into the first layer to a depth which corresponds to the height of the intermediate layer, and then filling a second ceramic material into the mold, wherein the ceramic materials contain zirconium dioxide doped with yttrium oxide (Y 2 O 3), calcium oxide (CaO), magnesium oxide (MgO) and/or cerium oxide (CeO 2), 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, 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 pre-determined 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.