Zirconia currently holds a significant portion of the market for fixed dental prostheses in Norway, and the types of dental zirconia available are increasing. Advertising slogans such as high translucent”, “super translucent”, and “ultra translucent”, among others, are commonly used to describe today’s dental zirconias. In addition, the term “multi-layer zirconia” is used to describe […]

The aim of this study was to investigate how lower and higher sintering temperature deviations in dental furnaces compared to the recommended firing protocols affected certain material properties of different translucency, chemical composition and recommended sintering temperatures, under the null hypothesis that there will not be any differences in properties investigated between the studied groups.