An inaccessible material both in terms of technology and manufacture for the aristocratic classes royal courts Europe especially prominent politically, socially culturally Italy, porcelain was until beginning eighteenth century an ‘impossible dream’ which only through a limited number Chinese wares could be satisfied. However early highly decorative playful Rococo period, its discovery Germany ...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effect of cooling rates after firing procedures of veneering porcelain on shear bond strength between veneering porcelain and a zirconium dioxide (zirconia; ZrO₂) ceramic material. A total of 48 ZrO₂ disks were divided equally into three groups. Two veneering porcelains that are recommended for ZrO₂ material - Cerabien ZR (CZR), IPS e.max Cer...

porcelain seems to have much better special quality, abrasion wear resistance, corrosive resistance and so forth, which are considered the most important as dental restorative materials. But on the other side, porcelain materials have several defects at the same time, because they cannot be processed so easily as metallic or synthetic resin materials, and in addition, they have no elasticity in...

The literature related to stress distribution in porcelain-fused-to-gold restorations and the supporting structures has been reviewed by Craig, El-Ebrashi. and Peyton.1 They used two-dimensional composite photoelastic models to study the stress distribution in labial-lingual and mesial-distal sections of a central incisor that contained a porcelainfused-to-gold or a porcelain crown restoration....

A woman (38 years) with tetracycline-stained maxillary anterior teeth came to dental office to improve her appearance. The porcelain veneers and zircon-porcelain crowns were selected as the best treatment option to mask the stained teeth. Medial line, occlusal line, level of gingival margin and frontal plane alignment of maxillary anterior teeth was analysed. Direct composite laminates were pla...

The aim of this study was to characterize a conventional and a pressed porcelain for zirconia core as to biaxial flexural strength (BFS), apparent fracture toughness (FT) and microstructure composition, and to investigate the effect of glaze cooling rate on the BFS of the zirconia/porcelain bilayers. Monolayers of conventional porcelain Vita VM9 and pressed porcelain Vita PM9 (n=15) (12 mm diam...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The bond strength of dental porcelain to titanium is inadequate as a clinical alternative to conventional alloys for metal ceramic restorations. PURPOSE The purpose of this in vitro study was to evaluate the effects of coating titanium surface with a micro-arc oxidation (MAO) technique and hydroxyapatite (HA) on the bond strength of porcelain to titanium surfaces. MATER...

Formulation of traditional hard porcelain generally requires 50% kaolin, 25% silica and feldspar. Four porcelains formulation using the casting method, were prepared with different percentages kaolinitic clay, sand pegmatite referenced respectively NONG, SAB PEG. The physico-chemical, mechanical mineralogical characteristics evaluated on specimens formulated sintered at temperatures from 1200?C...

Introduction: The selection of porcelain is based on high biocompatibility, endurance, superficial texture and aesthetics. Nevertheless, the innate fracture charateritics of porcelain is the main cause of the intra oral fractures. Electing a suitable porcelain restorative system in terms of stability of color is important. For this reason, this study aimed to examine the color changes of common...

The aim of this study was to evaluate different curing times of a light-emitting diode (LED) unit on shear bond strength (SBS) of ceramic brackets bonded to feldspathic porcelain. Ceramic brackets were bonded with a light-cured adhesive to 96 feldspathic porcelain facets. Air-borne particle abrasion was performed using 25 mum aluminium trioxide (Al(2)O(3)) with an air abrasion device from a dis...