How to make porcelain teeth

Porcelain teeth evolved from metal teeth with the support of the current level of technology and driven by human aesthetics. It has only been widely used in the dental field in the past ten years. Because the color of porcelain teeth is very close to real teeth, it is more natural to wear porcelain teeth, which is quite popular among the public.

How to make porcelain teeth? Why are porcelain teeth so expensive?

Because the raw materials for making porcelain teeth are much more expensive than metal, and the production process is relatively cumbersome, it is more expensive than metal teeth, but it is not too expensive. In fact, ordinary people can also afford it. What is the specific price of porcelain teeth? It mainly depends on how the dental clinic is priced.

The raw material for making porcelain teeth is metallic zirconia, which is white powder, which is processed into zirconia blocks. Dental laboratories buy zirconia blocks, which are called raw zirconia blocks in the industry, because the hardness of such zirconia is not as strong as people's daily bite. what can we do about it? I will inform you about this later.

First of all, we need to understand what the production process of dentures looks like:

Step 1: If a patient needs dental implants, they will go to the dental clinic to see a dentist for treatment. The dentist will ask the patient to bite out a dental model, or the dentist will directly scan the patient’s gums and teeth with a dental scanner to form a digital dental model. The dentist will send the dental model to the laboratory. Some dental clinics are relatively large and well-equipped, and the dentist has rich experience and knows how to make dentures. They can directly make the next step of dentures in the dental clinic.

Step 2: The shape of the zirconia block purchased by the dental laboratory is similar to a small circular dish, which is completely different from the shape of our teeth. The dental technician first needs to engrave the zirconia block, and engrave the zirconia block into the shape of a real tooth. The technician in the dental laboratory will carve the zirconia block into a denture that matches the shape of the patient's teeth based on the dental model sent by the dental office. Under normal circumstances, a block of zirconia can carve a whole tooth.

Step 3: The carved dentures are actually raw zirconia. As we mentioned above, the hardness of raw zirconia cannot meet people's occlusal requirements, so technicians need to use professional dental equipment to process zirconia teeth. The treated zirconia teeth, also known as porcelain teeth, are harder than our real teeth.

Step 4: The dental laboratory sends the dentures back to the dental clinic, which usually takes 15 working days.

Step 5: The dentist informs the patient to perform implant surgery for dentures.

In many cases, the newly implanted porcelain teeth do not feel very comfortable and need to be run in for a period of time.