Glass Ceramic Dental
Name the major types of ceramics used in dentistry today and describe how they differ in composition physical properties optical properties and clinical applications.
Glass ceramic dental. Sintering leucite heat pressing on metal leucite leucite fluorapatite. Sem micrograph of a fluoroapatite containing glass ceramic fused to a zro 2 dental crown. Fabrication technique crystalline phase metal ceramics. Find read and cite all the research.
The very first dental glass ceramic was developed by grossman in 1972 13 and commercialized in 1984 by dentsply international under. This is very different than glass or glass ceramic materials in that these ceramics consist of a glass matrix with or without a crystalline filler in which there is no junction of particles crystals. The nano sized fluoroapatite crystals exhibit a needle like habit.