What Are Porcelain or All-Ceramic Crowns?
All ceramic crowns may be made of porcelain, resins, or dental ceramic materials. CAD/CAM or computer created crowns are becoming the mainstream technology in our high-tech dental office. They create an extremely natural-looking appearance and can be used anywhere in the mouth. The tooth-colored ceramic material is translucent, like the enamel of your natural teeth, and size and shade can be carefully matched to complement the rest of your smile. In fact, all-ceramic crown technology creates a final restoration that is as strong as the porcelain-fused to-metal crown. Porcelain-fused-to metal crowns are still used in certain situations and still provide the esthetic results but incorporate a metal substructure into them. In fact, some research shows that porcelain-fused-to-high-gold crowns help with the resistance of proliferation of bacteria around the tooth.
All-ceramic crowns are a type of cosmetic crown which are made purely from ceramic and no other material. This is in contrast to other types of crowns such as the porcelain fused to metal variety and gold crowns.
The defining feature of these crowns is that they are made from a translucent material which is attractive to look at and blends in well with the rest of your teeth.
