Traditional crowns are made with a metal sub-structure and then porcelain is placed on by a dental lab technician. The metal under the crown can cause irritation to the gum around the crown, the porcelain doesn't look natural like your real teeth because the metal doesn't let light in and the margin around the crown can show through your gums. Technology in dentistry today, lets you as a patient choose to have a ceramic porcelain zirconium, zirconia crown or bridge. The advantages of an all ceramic crown is the material is biocompatible friendly to your body, there is no dark line to worry about showing through your gums and the all ceramic tooth looks natural to your teeth. Light reflexs naturally through the ceramic and gives you a nice life like appearance.
Be careful to not get confused with dental office's offering in house milling machines that grind out a one shade zirconium or zirconia crown. These machines make a nice crown, but if you look in the mirror at your teeth, our teeth aren't just one shade. It takes a dental lab technician layering porcelain on your crown to make it look like your teeth. Fast isn't always best and a nice zirconium or zirconia crown made specific for you is well worth the wait.
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