1) What is the strongest material available for teeth restoration?
A high-tech ceramic, Zirconium Oxide named Cercon, is now available and has proven in many extreme situations, such as all kinds of friction & heat shields.
Because of this high-tech, now Cercon Smart Ceramics can be used for making bridges of up to six units in the incisal & molar regions.
2) Who developed the Cercon system?
As a result of progress of the research project carried out by renowned Zurich Federal Institute of Technology. It is now possible to use this Zirconium Oxide in the dental laboratory for making a wax form or model for your crown/bridge covering by ceramic veneer like the color of your natural teeth.
When the system was launched on the market in 2002, there were already more than 3 years of clinical tests.
3) What was the first utilization of Cercon material?
Zirconia has been used successfully in orthopedics since 1969 for artificial hip joint heads.
4) What are the advantages of Cercon material?
- Using Cercon Smart Ceramics offers a great advantage for your restoration’s aesthetics, natural colour, which is difficult to differentiate between it and the natural teeth.
- The tests prove that no local toxic effects could be expected when Zirconia ceramics made contact with bones or soft tissues.
- Cercon has an excellent biocompatibility.
- Zirconia exhibits a unique property called transformation toughening. Ceramic restorations typically fail though microcrack propagation, initiated and driven by repeated mastication stresses. The high stress at a microcrack tip causes Cercon to expand and this expansion acts to clamp the crack shut, resisting crack propagation, thus enhancing strengh and thoughness.
- All ceramics restorations have been approved in the anterior and posterior region (single crowns, 3-units, 4-units, with a maximum anatomical length of 48 mm)
5) Is it possible to have an allergic reaction?
Allergy tests are often performed on individuals to know about using Zirconium Oxide that no cases of allergic reaction have been reported to date. Therefore, specialists promote to use this material in any dental restoration & treatment of oral cavity.
