A block-like composite material for dental cutting and processing, wherein
- the block-like composite material has a multilayered structure comprising at least two layers having different transparencies including a highly transparent layer and a low transparent layer,
- wherein:
- the each layer includes a curable resin and a fiber material,
- the different transparencies are obtained by adjusting a difference in refractive indexes between the curable resin and the fiber material in each of the at least two layers,
- the highly transparent layer has a higher transparency than the low transparent layer, and
- a boundary between the layers consists of a flat plane.