{"id":9789,"date":"2024-02-19T01:04:57","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T01:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myholisticdentist.com\/?p=9789"},"modified":"2024-02-19T16:41:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T16:41:07","slug":"is-a-full-porcelain-crown-better-than-porcelain-fused-to-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myholisticdentist.com\/2024\/02\/19\/is-a-full-porcelain-crown-better-than-porcelain-fused-to-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is Better a PFM or a Full Porcelain Crown?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I’m often asked, ‘What’s the best crown material?’ In my eyes, hands down, the best crown material is porcelain from a health and biocompatibility point of view. So, between the two most popular types of crowns in dentistry today, I always recommend a full porcelain crown over a PRM crown for my patients. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The main reason is that my patients care about the materials that are used in their mouths, and want the most biofriendly materials possible. The second reason is I often see the results of PFM crowns on the health of the gums around the tooth that has this type of crown. The rest of this article lays out the differnces in these two types of crowns and compares the inflammation produced by a PFM vs an Full Porcelain Crown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
PFM stands for porcelain fused to metal. It’s a crown that was the most commonly used from the 1980’s until around 2010. The reason why it was used so often is that it is reliable and long lasting. That’s why I call it the Cadillac of crowns. It has stood the test of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How it’s made is that a lab casts a metal coping that fits over the tooth and looks kind of like a thimble. Then the lab bakes different kind of porcelains over the metal to give it a fairly natural appearance when the crown is on the tooth. I say fairly natural because these crowns have an opaque look to them because of the masking that’s needed to hide the metal under the porcelain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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