• Benefits of Dental Bridge and Crown
• The Procedure
• Porcelain Crowns vs. Porcelain Veneers
• Care for Dental Crown
• FAQs
• All ceramic crowns / bridges
• Porcelain fused to High Noble metal crowns / bridges
• 3D CAD-CAM designed Zirconia porcelain crowns / bridges (Metal FREE ceramic, but strong as metal)
• Procera –all porcelain crown
• Titanium-porcelain crowns / bridges by CAD-CAM technology
Porcelain veneered crown or Porcelain fused to metal crown is a hybrid between all-metal crown and all porcelain crown. When being manufactured, our dental technicians will make a shell of metal (substructure) that is custom fitted for your affected tooth. A veneer of porcelain is then fused over this metal, giving the crown a white tooth-like appearance. Porcelain fused to metal crowns has the advantages of having a nearly natural appearance from the porcelain, and the strength and stability provided by the underlying metal.
Degudent® LS
Degudent® LS is a high noble alloy with 87% gold, 5.8% palladium and 7% silver. Degudent® LS is a micro-fine, extra-hard alloy suitable for single crowns and long span bridgework, milled restorations in conjunction with precision attachments, partial dentures and implant superstructures. Degudent® LS displays a golden color and can be veneered with Duceragold® Porcelain. Our premium crown utilizes this low fusing porcelain in a four-layer build up. Both restorations provide outstanding results that will rival all-ceramic crowns; yet they can be cemented in a conventional manner.
This is an advanced metallurgical technology for producing high gold content, yellow metal substructures. This 22-karat gold substructure offers the strength and stability of a platinum-palladium alloy. So strong in fact, that this material is equally suitable for both single crowns and bridges.
It has a unique metallurgical structure called a "dual phase interpenetrating composite." When combined with an electrolyte (saliva), a very small electrical charge results. Researchers are calling this a "bacteriostatic effect," and it is reported to repel plaque and bacteria.
The porcelain-fused-to-metal crown certainly provides durability with some reasonable esthetics for crowns. And you would not consider anything but a PFM bridge, be it posterior or anterior. However, with the increasing esthetic demands of our patients, even the best PFM crowns and bridges appear too bulky and opaque. And no matter how well they are fabricated, it is only a matter of time before some metal starts to show, and in the anterior this is completely unacceptable.
To alleviate this problem, new materials were provided and laboratory techniques developed to produce an all-ceramic single restoration that was highly esthetic. In fact, the esthetics they were using created restorations that were indistinguishable from natural teeth. Thus, the challenge now is to fabricate an esthetic but durable all-ceramic that has wear characteristics favorable to the opposing dentition, and is available for anterior or posterior multi-unit bridges.
New Technologies, New Materials
The fabrication of all-ceramic, esthetic, and durable anterior crowns and bridges is made possible through the combination of new technology and new materials. The new technology is CAD/CAM, computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing. It fabricates an all-ceramic (Zirconia) framework that is not only very thin, light, and durable, but also available in various tooth color shades that improve the life-like esthetics of the final restoration.
One of the newer materials, Zirconia (ZRO2)—an oxidized form of the Zirconium metal—is able to resist high-stress areas internally, such as sharp line angles in the tooth preparation, grinding damage during internal adjustment, and stresses generated by chewing or thermal changes in the mouth. In addition, transformation-toughening gives Zirconia excellent mechanical properties: high flexural strength—900 Mpa to 1.2 Gpa—and toughness—7–8 MP.M a –0.5
You'll want to look at it again and again?
When we talk to each other, our gaze falls often on the mouth. In this, we naturally focus particularly on the teeth and paying increasing attention to their appearance.
With 3D CAD-CAM designed Zirconium smart ceramics, all restorations can be shaped so naturally that they cannot be distinguished from your real teeth. With the 3D designed Zirconium smart ceramics, our new high-tech all-ceramic material, this wish can now be fulfilled. Zirconium smart ceramics offers extremely natural aesthetics paired with excellent biocompatibility.
3D CAD-CAM designed zirconia porcelain crowns and bridges.
Today CAD/CAM allows a Houston cosmetic dentist to custom-fabricate any of these in the in the dental surgery it self and cement them in place
- all in a single appointment.
The Steps in CAD/CAM Tooth Preparation
- The first step in using dental CAD/CAM is tooth preparation.
- The second step involves taking an impression, not by pressing a soft material over the tooth, but by taking a picture with a special camera that sends the prepared tooth's exact dimensions into a computer.
- The cosmetic dental restoration is next designed with the aid of a computer, and then your Houston cosmetic dentist selects a material that is colored to match your specific tooth.
- The material is then placed into a miniature milling machine. In just a few minutes it produces a precise, custom-fitting cosmetic dental restoration.
- Finally, the new cosmetic dental restoration is test-fitted, color adjusted, and bonded in place. After your bite and fit are checked, you'll have a new, CAD/CAM cosmetic dental restoration - in just one appointment Procera All Ceram combines excellent and profound strength with beautiful esthetics. The material consists of 99.5 percent pure aluminum oxide and is biocompatible, thereby ensuring excellent long-term esthetics.
Procera All Ceram is translucent giving the tooth a natural appearance. At the same time Procera All Ceram is excellent for concealing underlying surfaces, such as amalgam and root fillings. This ceram is also customized but still industrially produced, ensuring predictable results. You should try quickly in your mouth with minimal adjustments.
With the strength in the core material, Procera All Ceram can be recommended for prosthetic reconstructions anywhere in the mouth. More and more patients are asking for constructions made of material not containing metal or other alloys. Procera All Ceram is made of bio-compatible material (comparable to Titanium) which minimizes the risk of allergic reactions. No need to worry about your allergies when you use Procera All Ceram. The translucent coping offers remarkable esthetic characteristics. When combined with Procera All Ceram Porcelain the advantages are clearly demonstrated. To recreate the beauty of natural your teeth, the porcelain has been formulated to make the most of the coping's inherent potential and efficient.
Procera® Crown Zirconia
- Fracture rate only 0.26%
- Proven strength and all-ceramic beauty
- Highly biocompatible material
- No specialized clinical preparation or cementation procedures
- Zirconia for the highest load situations
Procera® Crown Alumina
- Fracture rate only 0.26%
- Proven strength and all-ceramic beauty
- Highly biocompatible material
- No specialized clinical preparation or cementation procedures
- Alumina for the most outstanding light transmission Procera® Bridge Zirconia
NEW - Procera® Bridge Zirconia up to 9 units
Extends the span for existing bridges from four units within 15 x 50 mm to bridgemaintaineds from 25 x 60 mm
Marginal fit to less than 15 microns along full length of bridge
Excellent esthetics when combined with NobelRondo™
Highly biocompatible material
Indicated for all positions within the mouth Procera® Bridge Alumina
NEW - Procera® Bridge Alumina
Densely sintered Alumina bridge
maintaineded for the anterior region, premolar to premolar
Unsurpassed light transmission for the best cosmetic results
Possible with conventional cementation, saving valuable chair time compared to bonding
Because the pure titanium is characterized with good biological compatibility, titanium is widely applied into the area of clinical science. In dentistry, the application is mainly as implant body, pure titanium removable partial denture and titanium alloy porcelain laminates, etc.
At Bangkok Smile Dental Clinic, we use the latest 3D CAD-CAM system to mill the medical-graded titanium for use as the framework for crowns, bridges and implant works. Our results are consistently impressive convincing our clients of the quality and sustainability of the technology.
The pure Titanium is a superior dental solution for the following reasons :
• A titanium casting is totally bio-compatible
• Titanium castings are over 35% lighter than chrome castings
• Extremely low metal contraction results in a precision fit
• The physical properties of titanium enable clasp placement in a deeper undercut resulting in a more aesthetic restoration
• Titanium has very low thermal conductivity. Hot and cold food can be enjoyed without worrying about the discomfort of temperature shock
• Food and drink is unaffected by a 'metallic taste' due to titanium's remarkable physical neutrality
• Titanium is very high corrosion-resistance. Very little thermal irritation of the vital hard and soft
• The Procedure
• Porcelain Crowns vs. Porcelain Veneers
• Care for Dental Crown
• FAQs
• All ceramic crowns / bridges
• Porcelain fused to High Noble metal crowns / bridges
• 3D CAD-CAM designed Zirconia porcelain crowns / bridges (Metal FREE ceramic, but strong as metal)
• Procera –all porcelain crown
• Titanium-porcelain crowns / bridges by CAD-CAM technology
| Material | Technology | Compatibility | Quality | Aesthetics |
Porcelain fused to High Noble metal crowns / bridges
Porcelain veneered crown or Porcelain fused to metal crown is a hybrid between all-metal crown and all porcelain crown. When being manufactured, our dental technicians will make a shell of metal (substructure) that is custom fitted for your affected tooth. A veneer of porcelain is then fused over this metal, giving the crown a white tooth-like appearance. Porcelain fused to metal crowns has the advantages of having a nearly natural appearance from the porcelain, and the strength and stability provided by the underlying metal.Degudent® LS
Degudent® LS is a high noble alloy with 87% gold, 5.8% palladium and 7% silver. Degudent® LS is a micro-fine, extra-hard alloy suitable for single crowns and long span bridgework, milled restorations in conjunction with precision attachments, partial dentures and implant superstructures. Degudent® LS displays a golden color and can be veneered with Duceragold® Porcelain. Our premium crown utilizes this low fusing porcelain in a four-layer build up. Both restorations provide outstanding results that will rival all-ceramic crowns; yet they can be cemented in a conventional manner.
This is an advanced metallurgical technology for producing high gold content, yellow metal substructures. This 22-karat gold substructure offers the strength and stability of a platinum-palladium alloy. So strong in fact, that this material is equally suitable for both single crowns and bridges.
It has a unique metallurgical structure called a "dual phase interpenetrating composite." When combined with an electrolyte (saliva), a very small electrical charge results. Researchers are calling this a "bacteriostatic effect," and it is reported to repel plaque and bacteria.3D CAD-CAM designed Zirconia porcelain crowns / bridges (Metal FREE ceramic, but strong as metal)
Over the past several years, dentists have been driven to provide more esthetic and desirable anterior full or partially covered anterior restorations to meet the desires of our patients. This is especially true for the multi-unit anterior or posterior bridge. The problem has always been to achieve both strength and esthetics.The porcelain-fused-to-metal crown certainly provides durability with some reasonable esthetics for crowns. And you would not consider anything but a PFM bridge, be it posterior or anterior. However, with the increasing esthetic demands of our patients, even the best PFM crowns and bridges appear too bulky and opaque. And no matter how well they are fabricated, it is only a matter of time before some metal starts to show, and in the anterior this is completely unacceptable.
To alleviate this problem, new materials were provided and laboratory techniques developed to produce an all-ceramic single restoration that was highly esthetic. In fact, the esthetics they were using created restorations that were indistinguishable from natural teeth. Thus, the challenge now is to fabricate an esthetic but durable all-ceramic that has wear characteristics favorable to the opposing dentition, and is available for anterior or posterior multi-unit bridges.
New Technologies, New Materials
The fabrication of all-ceramic, esthetic, and durable anterior crowns and bridges is made possible through the combination of new technology and new materials. The new technology is CAD/CAM, computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing. It fabricates an all-ceramic (Zirconia) framework that is not only very thin, light, and durable, but also available in various tooth color shades that improve the life-like esthetics of the final restoration.
One of the newer materials, Zirconia (ZRO2)—an oxidized form of the Zirconium metal—is able to resist high-stress areas internally, such as sharp line angles in the tooth preparation, grinding damage during internal adjustment, and stresses generated by chewing or thermal changes in the mouth. In addition, transformation-toughening gives Zirconia excellent mechanical properties: high flexural strength—900 Mpa to 1.2 Gpa—and toughness—7–8 MP.M a –0.5You'll want to look at it again and again?
When we talk to each other, our gaze falls often on the mouth. In this, we naturally focus particularly on the teeth and paying increasing attention to their appearance.
With 3D CAD-CAM designed Zirconium smart ceramics, all restorations can be shaped so naturally that they cannot be distinguished from your real teeth. With the 3D designed Zirconium smart ceramics, our new high-tech all-ceramic material, this wish can now be fulfilled. Zirconium smart ceramics offers extremely natural aesthetics paired with excellent biocompatibility.
3D CAD-CAM designed zirconia porcelain crowns and bridges.
Today CAD/CAM allows a Houston cosmetic dentist to custom-fabricate any of these in the in the dental surgery it self and cement them in place
- all in a single appointment.
The Steps in CAD/CAM Tooth Preparation
- The first step in using dental CAD/CAM is tooth preparation.
- The second step involves taking an impression, not by pressing a soft material over the tooth, but by taking a picture with a special camera that sends the prepared tooth's exact dimensions into a computer.
- The cosmetic dental restoration is next designed with the aid of a computer, and then your Houston cosmetic dentist selects a material that is colored to match your specific tooth.
- The material is then placed into a miniature milling machine. In just a few minutes it produces a precise, custom-fitting cosmetic dental restoration.
- Finally, the new cosmetic dental restoration is test-fitted, color adjusted, and bonded in place. After your bite and fit are checked, you'll have a new, CAD/CAM cosmetic dental restoration - in just one appointment Procera All Ceram combines excellent and profound strength with beautiful esthetics. The material consists of 99.5 percent pure aluminum oxide and is biocompatible, thereby ensuring excellent long-term esthetics.
Procera All Ceram is translucent giving the tooth a natural appearance. At the same time Procera All Ceram is excellent for concealing underlying surfaces, such as amalgam and root fillings. This ceram is also customized but still industrially produced, ensuring predictable results. You should try quickly in your mouth with minimal adjustments.
With the strength in the core material, Procera All Ceram can be recommended for prosthetic reconstructions anywhere in the mouth. More and more patients are asking for constructions made of material not containing metal or other alloys. Procera All Ceram is made of bio-compatible material (comparable to Titanium) which minimizes the risk of allergic reactions. No need to worry about your allergies when you use Procera All Ceram. The translucent coping offers remarkable esthetic characteristics. When combined with Procera All Ceram Porcelain the advantages are clearly demonstrated. To recreate the beauty of natural your teeth, the porcelain has been formulated to make the most of the coping's inherent potential and efficient.
Procera® Crown Zirconia
- Fracture rate only 0.26%
- Proven strength and all-ceramic beauty
- Highly biocompatible material
- No specialized clinical preparation or cementation procedures
- Zirconia for the highest load situations
Procera® Crown Alumina
- Fracture rate only 0.26%
- Proven strength and all-ceramic beauty
- Highly biocompatible material
- No specialized clinical preparation or cementation procedures
- Alumina for the most outstanding light transmission Procera® Bridge Zirconia
NEW - Procera® Bridge Zirconia up to 9 units
Extends the span for existing bridges from four units within 15 x 50 mm to bridgemaintaineds from 25 x 60 mm
Marginal fit to less than 15 microns along full length of bridge
Excellent esthetics when combined with NobelRondo™
Highly biocompatible material
Indicated for all positions within the mouth Procera® Bridge Alumina
NEW - Procera® Bridge Alumina
Densely sintered Alumina bridge
maintaineded for the anterior region, premolar to premolar
Unsurpassed light transmission for the best cosmetic results
Possible with conventional cementation, saving valuable chair time compared to bonding
Titanium-porcelain crowns / bridges by CAD-CAM technology
Titanium Porcelain is matched to the specific material properties of titanium. The inherent versatile properties of titanium provide an incredibly biocompatible, corrosion-resistant coping that is lightweight, hypo-allergenic, mechanically strong (Vicker's hardness of 180-250, degree 1-4) and has low thermal conductivity.Because the pure titanium is characterized with good biological compatibility, titanium is widely applied into the area of clinical science. In dentistry, the application is mainly as implant body, pure titanium removable partial denture and titanium alloy porcelain laminates, etc. At Bangkok Smile Dental Clinic, we use the latest 3D CAD-CAM system to mill the medical-graded titanium for use as the framework for crowns, bridges and implant works. Our results are consistently impressive convincing our clients of the quality and sustainability of the technology.
The pure Titanium is a superior dental solution for the following reasons :
• A titanium casting is totally bio-compatible
• Titanium castings are over 35% lighter than chrome castings
• Extremely low metal contraction results in a precision fit
• The physical properties of titanium enable clasp placement in a deeper undercut resulting in a more aesthetic restoration
• Titanium has very low thermal conductivity. Hot and cold food can be enjoyed without worrying about the discomfort of temperature shock
• Food and drink is unaffected by a 'metallic taste' due to titanium's remarkable physical neutrality
• Titanium is very high corrosion-resistance. Very little thermal irritation of the vital hard and soft
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