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Preparation of Machinable Zirconia Ceramics as a Dental Prosthetic Material

RONG Tian-Jun1; ZHAO Yun-Feng2; WANG Shi-Wei1; ZHANG Yu-Feng1; HUNAG Xiao-Xian1; GUO Jing-Kun1   

  1. 1.Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050; China; 2.Stomatological college; Sichuan University; Chengdu 610041; China
  • Received:2002-02-08 Revised:2002-04-26 Published:2003-03-20 Online:2003-03-20

Abstract: The zirconia ceramic as a dental prosthetic material was prepared by liquid-phase sintering with CaO2-Al2O3
-SiO2 glass as the sintering aid. And the bending strength, fracture toughness, thermal expansion and machinable property of the sintered bodies
were valued. The results obtained show that (1) CaO2-Al2O3-SiO2 glass is effective to lower the sintering temperature of zirconia ceramic
to 1300℃; (2) the machinability of the dental prosthetic zirconia ceramic is comparable to that of In-Ceram; (3) its thermal expansion coefficient is 8.15~
7.19×10-6/℃, bending strength is 360~340MPa and fracture toughness is 3.5~2.7MPa·m1/2.

Key words: zirconia ceramics, machinable, dental prosthetic material, preparation

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