The purpose of this study was to evaluate dental students' perceptions of traditional waxing vs. computer-aided crown design and to determine the effectiveness of either technique through comparative grading of the final products. On one of twoidentical tooth preparations, second-year students at one dental school fabricated a wax pattern for a full contour crown; on the second tooth preparatio...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the internal fit (IF) of glass-infiltrated alumina (ICA--In-Ceram Alumina), yttria-stabilized tetragonal zirconia polycrystals (Y-TZP--IPS e.max ZirCAD), and metal-ceramic (MC--Ni-Cr alloy) crowns. MATERIAL AND METHODS Sixty standardized resin-tooth replicas of a maxillary first molar were produced for crown placement and divided into 3 grou...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the vertical marginal gap of sintered gold copings and metal-ceramic crowns with different finish line preparations: a beveled round shoulder (BRS) and a beveled long chamfer (BLC), testing the null hypotheses that there are no differences in marginal gap regardless of finish line and phase of restoration (coping or crown). Stainless steel master models wer...

Ceramic/fiber composite armor is a hot research topic of bulletproof equipment. The lightweight design ceramic materials and structures has attracted much attention. In this work, in the light remarkable performance against elastic oblique penetration, novel honeycomb panel with hexagonal prism spherical body was designed. splicing ceramic/fiber plate bonded PE plate. prepared, target test cond...

PURPOSE The objective of this study was to determine the effect of the color of a background substructure on the overall color of a zirconia-based all-ceramic crown. MATERIALS AND METHODS Twenty one posterior zirconia crowns were made for twenty subjects. Seven premolar crowns and six molar crowns were cemented onto abutments with metal post and core in the first and second group. In the thir...