Why Choose Zirconia Teeth For Your Dental Crowns?

An ideal dental crown should blend seamlessly with the other natural teeth in the mouth, restore function without pain or harm, have unrivaled durability and be easy to keep clean – these requirements can all be fulfilled using zirconia as its material of choice for crowns.

There are various varieties of zirconia available today. When solid or monolithic, it has a tetragonal crystal structure at room temperature; when treated with 3- to 8% yttrium content it becomes cubic at room temperature and becomes cerium-stabilized zirconia.

Aesthetics

Zirconia crowns are manufactured using the latest CAD/CAM technology and customized to match the natural tooth colors and shapes, providing more aesthetic results than traditional crowns. By matching existing tooth structures more closely than with conventional crowns, zirconia crowns make a greater impression among their wearers while maintaining natural tooth structure, thus offering superior aesthetic results.

To create the desired shape of a zirconia veneer, our dentist will first remove some enamel from your front surface teeth under local anesthesia for maximum comfort. After this is completed, an accurate dental impression or digital scan will be taken so our laboratory can design your new veneer before finally having it baked at ultra-high temperatures to add strength and rigidity.

Zirconia restorations offer superior stain-resistance compared to porcelain veneers, which may stain and even chip or break under certain circumstances. Therefore, your restorations will continue looking as good as new for years!

Zirconia stands out as an attractive option due to its natural luminosity. Zirconia ceramics allow diffuse transmission of light, mimicking natural tooth opalescence. Furthermore, being metal-free eliminates gingival darkening as well as any possibility of exposed metallic margins due to gum tissue recession.

New Zirconia products feature high translucency (HT), providing even more translucent and opalescent results than before. Furthermore, eliminating shading liquids saves patients up to three hours in waiting time in our office.

Strength

Zirconia crowns are extremely strong and resistant to the forces of mastication (bruxism). At least three times stronger than traditional PFM crowns, zirconia allows us to build smaller restorations that preserve more natural tooth structure while providing stronger restorations.

Although porcelain can also be an effective dental material, its strength doesn’t compare with zirconia’s and may wear or chip over time. Therefore, porcelain crowns will need replacing sooner which could necessitate additional surgery and may result in the loss of surrounding teeth as well as an unfavorable aesthetic.

Zirconia crowns are not only stronger and more durable than porcelain alternatives, but they’re also much less likely to experience corrosion or discoloration as metal alternatives do. Since zirconia does not feature metallic substructure, zirconia crowns don’t suffer the same issues associated with dental alloys like corrosion and discoloration.

Opaque monolithic zirconia crowns offer superior flexural strength and are thus best suited to the posterior region of the mouth, while more translucent types have greater aesthetic qualities but lower flexural strength – ideal for anterior region crowns. However, these translucent options still remain very durable crowns, and in our New Teeth Now process will allow a healing period before your implants integrate and jawbone recover; once this period ends we’ll make your final set of zirconia teeth.

Durability

Durable restorations help prevent further dental problems, including jaw pain and further tooth damage. Furthermore, durability ensures your patients enjoy long-term comfort when eating and speaking.

Zirconia is one of the strongest materials available for creating dental crowns and bridges. Unlike metal-based restorations, zirconia restorations can withstand strong biting forces without cracking under pressure – meaning your patients can continue eating, speaking, and chewing as normal with restored teeth.

Zirconia stands out from the pack as an exceptionally natural material to use in restorations, offering strength as well as strikingly similar aesthetics in any lighting condition. As its composition does not transmit any grayness, zirconia restorations appear similar to natural teeth when under sunlight, sunbed or black light illumination.

There are various zirconia dental restorations, but one of the most popular choices is yttrium-stabilized zirconia polycrystal (3Y-TZP). This type of zirconia retains its monoclinic structure at room temperature before transitioning into its tetragonal form when exposed to yttrium, giving rise to what dentists refer to as toughened zirconia restorations or toughened zirconia restorations.

Full-contour translucent zirconia (PFZ) dental crowns offer another solution. Their fabrication involves cutting a window into the face of full-contour zirconia crowns before layering translucent porcelain over them and baking to achieve aesthetic goals. While not as hard as full-contour zirconia crowns, PFZ still withstands biting and grinding forces experienced by patients.

Comfort

Zirconia crowns are custom designed to match and feel just like natural teeth. Molded in an outside lab by experienced technicians, these crowns will perfectly complement the shape and size of surrounding teeth for a comfortable and functional fit. At your appointment they will make any necessary adjustments right then and there so you have an experience as pain free as possible!

Zirconia restorations offer an alternative to PFM crowns that contain metal alloys that may cause allergic reactions in some patients, by being completely metal-free and biocompatible – making them the ideal solution for those suffering from metal allergy.

Your dentist’s choice of zirconia will affect how it feels and functions – for instance, layered zirconia has more translucency than monolithic zirconia to create more natural-looking restorations that resemble your natural teeth more closely.

Solid zirconia crowns are opaque, making them an excellent choice for posterior crowns as they require minimal clearance and wear down opposing teeth less quickly. Furthermore, solid zirconia can cover over discolored dental preps more effectively.

One drawback of zirconia can be that it may feel heavy at first, but this should diminish as your natural teeth adjust and integrate. Most patients don’t even notice this difference after just a short amount of time has passed.