Hydrofluoric acid concentrations: Effect on the cyclic load-to-failure of machined lithium disilicate restorations

With an increasing demand for aesthetics and mechanical reliability, lithium disilicate ceramic has been meeting an outstanding role among the glass-ceramics available for monolithic restorations. This ceramic material, feasible to machining by CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing) presents a good success rate ( ∼95%) for single crowns for up to 10 years of follow-up [1–3].

Source: Dental Materials - July 18, 2018 Category: Materials Science Authors: Catina Prochnow, Andressa Borin Venturini, Lu ís Felipe Guilardi, Gabriel Kalil Rocha Pereira, Thiago Augusto Lima Burgo, Marco Cícero Bottino, Cornelis Johannes Kleverlaan, Luiz Felipe Valandro Source Type: research