of the post at the core region must be stiff to take away the stress from the core while stiffness along the dentine region of the tooth should gradually be reduced to the value of the dentine hence the post according to the present invention comprises segments of varying stiffness along its length as fiber reinforced composite is used to make the dental post in the present invention good fatigue and corrosion resistance is also achieved for the purpose of understanding the present invention stiffness refers to young 39 s modulus segments of a post refers to imaginary divisions along the length of a single post for ease of description of graded stiffness and do not necessarily mean an actual physical separation of the post into different sections braiding angle refers to the angle between a braided fiber and the longitudinal axis of a long product the material may be any conventional composite material such as a combination of ceramic polymer or metals the materials may also be a combination of different polymer or different metals or different ceramic the following are examples of methods of fabricating a post with graded stiffness for a dental post the preferred stiffness at the apical end is approximately the same as the stiffness of the dentine i e 20 gpa the stiffness at the coronal end is preferably much higher than the dentine stiffness such as 100 gpa the stiffness which can actually be achieved would depend on the material used for example a carbon fiber composite dental post may have a stiffness of 150 80 gpa at.