Zirconia-Based All-Ceramic Crowns and Bridges:Three Case Reports

From Volume 33, Issue 7, September 2006 | Pages 401-410

Authors

FJT Burke

Primary Dental Care Research Group, University Birmingham School of Dentistry, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, UK

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A Ali

BDS, FDS RCPS(Glas), FDS RCS(Eng & Edin), DRD, MRD RCS(Edin)

Niddrie Square Clinic, Specialist Centre for Dentistry, Implantology and Facial Plastic Surgery, 12 Niddrie Square, Queen's Park, Glasgow G42 8QE, UK

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WM Palin

BSc, PhD

Biomaterials, University Birmingham School of Dentistry, St Chad's Queensway, Birmingham B4 6NN, UK

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Abstract

The search for a clinically viable all-ceramic bridge framework has been monotonous. Until recently, few materials appear to have the necessary physical and aesthetic properties. However, the development of yttrium tetragonal zirconia polycrystals, and its adoption for use in dentistry by CAD CAM technology, may hold promise as a crown and bridge framework, this being considered suitable for single and multiple units. However, to date, no long-term clinical studies have been reported. This paper describes three cases in which zirconia frameworks were used in crowns and bridges.

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