Multi-layer zirconia dental blank that has a gradual change in strength, translucency and chroma from one direction to the other after sintering
AssigneeB & D Dental Corporation
InventorsYunoh Jung, Daniel Yonil Jung
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Abstract
A dental block for producing a dental prosthesis comprises a green body including zirconia and having a chemical composition including increasing amounts of yttria through a thickness of the green body. The green body has a substantially consistent optical characteristic of chroma and translucency across the thickness, and is subsequently millable and sinterable to form the dental prosthesis with an optical characteristic of decreasing chroma, increasing translucency, and decreasing strength, in one direction through a thickness of the dental prosthesis.
Claims19
A zirconia sintered body, comprising:
- a) a sintered body comprising zirconia;
- b) the sintered body having multiple different areas, including at least one upper area and at least one lower area;
- c) the at least one upper area and the at least one lower area have a different chemical composition therebetween, with at least one area having a different strength that another area;
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- d) the sintered body having a translucency and a strength with an inverse relationship, with the translucency increasing in one direction across the multiple different areas and the strength decreasing in the same direction across the multiple different areas.
A zirconia sintered body, comprising:
- a) a sintered body comprising zirconia;
- b) the sintered body having multiple different areas including at least one upper area and at least one lower area;
- c) each of the at least one upper area and the at least one lower area having a different chemical composition therebetween;
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- d) the sintered body having a strength and a color intensity/chroma, with the strength decreasing in one direction across the multiple different areas and the color intensity/chroma also decreasing in the same direction across the multiple different areas.
A zirconia sintered body, comprising:
- a) a sintered body comprising zirconia and having multiple different areas, including at least one upper area and at least one lower area having a different chemical composition therebetween;
- b) the different chemical composition including different amounts of yttria between the at least one upper later and the at least one lower layer;
- c) the amount of yttria is increased incrementally from 4.5-10 wt % in the at least one lower area to 6-20 wt % in the at least one upper area with the at least one upper area having higher yttria amount than the at least one lower area;
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- d) the sintered body having a translucency and a color intensity/chroma with an inverse relationship, with the translucency increasing in one direction across the multiple different areas and the color intensity/chroma decreasing in the same direction across the multiple different areas.
A zirconia sintered body, comprising:
- a) a sintered body comprising zirconia and 6 to 20 wt% of yttria;
- b) the sintered body having multiple different areas including at least one lower area and an at least one upper area;
- c) the at least one upper area and the at least one lower area having a different chemical composition, including an amount of yttria, therebetween, with at least one area having a different strength than another area;
- d) the sintered body having a strength, a translucency and a post-sintered color intensity/chroma, with the translucency increasing in one direction across the multiple different areas and the strength and the color intensity/chroma decreasing in the same direction across the multiple different areas.
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