The importance of the optical properties in dental silica-based ceramics

J Calif Dent Assoc. 2012 Jun;40(6):476-81.

Abstract

To make esthetic rehabilitation similar to the natural teeth, all-ceramic restorations must have equal optical properties to the natural teeth in terms of color, translucency, fluorescence, and opalescence. Furthermore, a correct communication process with the laboratory is the key to success and biointegration with the ceramic indirect restoration and the teeth.

MeSH terms

  • Ceramics / chemistry
  • Color
  • Communication
  • Dental Porcelain / chemistry*
  • Dental Prosthesis Design*
  • Dentists
  • Esthetics, Dental
  • Fluorescence
  • Humans
  • Interprofessional Relations
  • Laboratories, Dental
  • Light
  • Optical Phenomena
  • Silicon Dioxide / chemistry*
  • Surface Properties
  • Tooth / anatomy & histology

Substances

  • Dental Porcelain
  • Silicon Dioxide