Treatment of tetracycline discoloured teeth with full ceramic restorations april 5 2017 by luc vandenborght lth.
Ceramic restoration teeth.
The ceramic crown is contraindicated when a more conservative restoration can be used.
Tetracylines were introduced in 1948 and are broad spectrum antibiotics that may be used in very different cases of infections.
For certain dental prostheses such as three unit molars porcelain.
The latter being a more recent area of high demand and one in which ceramic materials play a large role.
Mclean 1979 provides a concise history of ceramic use in modern dentistry.
325 structure of a metal ceramic restoration with cervical ceramic margin.
Because of the increased occlusal load and the reduced esthetic demand metal ceramic restorations are the treatment of choice.
Lf aesthetic demands are greater one can make a labial short ceramic shoulder.
Placing an all ceramic crown may offer some advantages in regard to biocompatibility.
Every dental practitioner has seen several cases of tetracycline stained teeth.
The types of ceramics used to make them are typically no more abrasive than dental enamel itself gold crowns have this advantage too in comparison the type of porcelain used to make pfm crowns can be very abrasive to opposing teeth and dental restorations and cause significant wear of.
To improve gingival aesthetics unsightly metal edges the metal framework is shortened and an all ceramic margin is made.
Dental porcelain also known as dental ceramic is a dental material used by dental technicians to create biocompatible lifelike dental restorations such as crowns bridges and veneers evidence suggests they are an effective material as they are biocompatible aesthetic insoluble and have a hardness of 7 on the mohs scale.
The use of ceramics for the restoration of teeth has been a part of dentistry s modern period of evolution.