Metal-ceramic crowns in Croatia

Dental crowns are the most commonly used prosthetic restoration in dental medicine. They can be used in all regions of the oral cavity. Dental crowns are used when one or more teeth are severely damaged due to caries or trauma, when teeth are missing or aesthetically unacceptable. They are placed on natural teeth or can be supported by dental implants.

Therefore, dental crowns may restore missing teeth, or prevent teeth from further decay or damage.

If there is a total loss of tooth, we can restore the missing teeth with crowns supported by implants or by connecting more dental crowns into a bridge.

In modern dentistry, metal-ceramic crowns are slowly becoming outdated, whereas, the future lies in metal-free ceramics and full zirconia restorations (crowns, veneers). Patients choose metal-ceramic crowns because of their excellent price to quality ratio.

Although aesthetically speaking, they are not among the top in aesthetic dentistry, their physical properties are just as good.

Metal-ceramic crowns are ceramic crowns fused to a metal alloy base. Metal-ceramic crowns first started being made in 1950. In modern dentistry, they are slowly becoming outdated, but are still considered a good quality and an economically acceptable solution.  However, when compared to modern materials, they cannot achieve such high aesthetic levels.

With regular check-ups and good oral hygiene, metal-ceramic crowns are a long-term and economically acceptable solution. To reduce the costs of extensive oral rehabilitations, they can be used in combination with metal-free crowns.