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PubChem Substance
Name: Dental Porcelain
PubChem Substance ID: 168239
Description: A type of porcelain used in dental restorations, either jacket crowns or inlays, artificial teeth, or metal-ceramic crowns. It is essentially a mixture of particles of feldspar and quartz, the feldspar melting first and providing a glass matrix for the quartz. Dental porcelain is produced by mixing ceramic powder (a mixture of quartz, kaolin, pigments, opacifiers, a suitable flux, and other substances) with distilled water. (From Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)
Synonyms:
Vita porcelain; 90093-48-4; Will-Ceram; Porcelain; Vita vmk 68; 39404-58-5; DENTAL PORCELAIN; Vitadur N; 12001-21-7; Dental materials and fillings, porcelain.
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