Metal and All-Ceramic Preparations Flashcards
A metal-ceramic crown is also known as a:
PFM
A crown that has a metal core with porcelain baked onto the metal core:
PFM (metal-ceramic)
This type of crown takes the strength of metal and combines it with the tooth matching esthetic ability of procelain:
PFM (metal-ceramic)
Indications for PFM include:
- When opposing tooth is:
- When a high level of ____ is needed
- When preparation is ____
- _____ & other ___ fixed restorations
- porcelain/ceramic
- esthetics
- unusual
- bridges; longspan
Advantages of PFM crowns:
________ due to the porcelain baked onto the metal coping
Natural appearance
Advantages of PFM crowns:
More _____ than all-ceramic crowns
resistant to fracture
Advantages of PFM crowns:
Greater ____ due to metal core than all-ceramic crowns
strength
Advantages of PFM crowns:
________- meaning it can have whole crown layered with porcelain to it can can metal occlusal with porcelain facing on buccal only.
Design flexibility
In the case of a PFM crown, metal added to the ____ adds strength
occlusal
Advantages of PFM crowns:
____ to multiple types of _____
adaptable; margin designs
What are the types of margin designs a PFM crowns can adapt to?
- chamfer
- shoulder
- shoulder with bevel (not common)
To accomodate beh requirements and benefits of using a PFM crown, the preparations need to be designed in particular ways including
- To accomodate ___
- To provide ____
- To allow for ___
- To decrease ____ associated with PFM crown design
- metal and porcelain
- optimum strength
- optimum esthetics
- gingival problems
PFM porcelain components include:
- opaque porcelain
- body porcelain
- incisal porcelain
- shoulder porcelain
What is the minimal metal thickness in a PFM crown:
0.3-0.5 mm
In a PFM crown, porcelain thickness contributes to:
maximizing esthetics
In a PFM crown the metal coping in the veneered areas = _____ while the metal coping in the unveneered areas = ____
veneered= 0.3-0.5 mm
unveneered= 0.8-1.0mm
In a PFM corn, the opaque porcelain = _____ while the shoulder porcelain = _____ while the gingival, body, and incisal porcelain = _____
opaque= 0.1-0.2 mm
shoulder= 0.8mm
gingival/body/incisal= 0.8-2.0 mm
In a PFM crown, what is the metal occlusal reduction?
In a PFM crown, what is the porcelain occlusal reduction?
1.5 mm
2.0 mm
In a metal-ceramic crown, two plane reduction allows for:
even thickness of material
In a PFM, what does the abscence of two plane reduction possibly result in?
endanger the pulp
With thinner areas in a PFM, this will decrease the ___ because it does not allow proper porcelain coverage
esthetics
In a PFM crown, what allows for porcelain esthetics to be carried into the contact regions for maximum esthetics?
continuing shoulder margin into and through the inter-proximal areas before thinning to a chamfer
In a PFM, ____ finish lines provide greater space for an esthetic thickness of metal and porcelain without having to over-contour the crown restoration
shoulder
In a PFM crown, a paper shoulder margin with appropriate depth allows the crown margins to be contoured for optimal:
gingival health and esthetics