Dental Porcelain
A type of porcelain used in dental restorations, either jacket crowns or inlays, artificial teeth, or metal-ceramic crowns. It is essentially a mixture of particles of feldspar and quartz, the feldspar melting first and providing a glass matrix for the quartz. Dental porcelain is produced by mixing ceramic powder (a mixture of quartz, kaolin, pigments, opacifiers, a suitable flux, and other substances) with distilled water. (From Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)
Year introduced: 1965
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Tree Number(s): D25.339.376, J01.637.051.339.376, J01.637.153.377
MeSH Unique ID: D003776
Registry Number: 12001-21-7
Entry Terms:
- Porcelain, Dental
- Dental Porcelains
- Porcelains, Dental
- Porcelain
- Porcelains