How to choose zirconia blocks in different brands

In the history of human beings, teeth are what the most important ogan. We use teeth chewing meats and taste hard nuts. The use of teeth will wear and tear the teeth. In the past, dentist use different materials for dental restorations, most of them are disappeared, only zirconia became the most popular material. Nowaday, zirconia block usage in dental is still increasing.

Why zirconia block is so popular used in dental?

Answer can be long or short. The essential is zirconia block has the advantage of biocompatibility, appearance natural and relaticely affortable for patients. Before we deepdive in zirconia benificial, we need to basically read about zirconia.

What is zirconia?

Zirconia made of zirconium dioxide, which has high strength, smooth surface. Besides in medical area, zirconia has beed widely used in industries like jewelry, knives, valves, and electrical devices etc.

Zirconia in Dentistry?

Zirconia usage in dental increasing is due to CAD/CAM technologe widely used in many dental labs. When the price CAD/CAM milling machines drop to an afortable arrange, dental labs can use zirconia blocks to make more nice denture than before with lower price.

Key features of zirconia block

In the market there are different brand of zirconia blocks. Some call them zirconia discs, some call them zirconia blanks. They may also have diferent merchandize names. But essentially, the differences are below 3 features due to different manufacturing process:

• Monolithic zirconia with maximum strength(1200Mpa)

• Multilayer zirconia with maximum aesthetics for translucency

• Between above to compromise with strength and translucency

So with this knowledge, It’s easy to compare with zirconia block products between different brand and their commercial names. It depends on the dentist’s purpose of fixing, where is the missing tooth. Anterior restorations may need highest tranlucency while back teeth may need highest strength.

What do we have?

Glorious is expertized in dental cad cam solution for dental lab. The product we produce including zirconia blocks, PMMA discs, dental 3d scanners etc.

Our zirconia blocks can categorize to :

Monolayer HT, ST, SHT with translucency improves

Multilayer ST, SHT, 3D-Pro with translucency impreves

Lithium dicilicate if you need most aesthetics

And we also has product to support CAD/CAM:

Dental 3d Scanners

Intraoral Scanners

Welcom to send inquires.