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Medical Forum / General / Dentistry / March 2005crowns
Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? Thank you >Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? >Thank you There are no silver crowns. NONE! There are base-metal crowns and precious metal crowns. Many are covered with a porcelain that is fired onto the metal surface. Some have no porcelain. Other crowns are all porcelain with no metal. Then there is composite such as ArtGlass or Targis Vectris. Joel This has to do with malleability, ductility, etc. Silver is plain no good for casting into crowns. Joel >>Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? >>Thank you [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Joel Silver IS good for reinforcing mercury fillings though .... Ask Jan. Joel >>Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? >>Thank you [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > >Joel >Silver IS good for reinforcing mercury fillings though .... Without the silver powder to reinforce it, the mercury fillings tend to drip out of the cavity too fast ....... Joel >Ask Jan. > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> >>Joel >>Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? >>Thank you [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > covered with a porcelain that is fired onto the metal surface. Some > have no porcelain. You can't really tell from the color. There are high-noble alloys that are silver in color and there are crap metals that are gold in color. Also, many dental labs put a thin gold electro-coating on crap metal restorations just to improve their "chairside" appeal. I suggest that you specify that you want "high noble". Expect to pay a bit more for good metal, but in the final analysis you must depend on the integrity of your dentist and his/her dental lab. Vaughn > You can't really tell from the color. There are high-noble alloys that are >silver in color and there are crap metals that are gold in color. Also, many [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > >Vaughn True, after all Silver could be a horse color as in Hi-Ho Silver ........ Gold is definitely better than stainless steel, if that's what you meant by "silver crown"... try posting on a consumer dental board, you've got a better chance of getting a coherent answer there! >Can someone tell me if a gold crown is any better than a silver crown? >Thank you yes .. Stephen Mancuso, D.D.S. Troy, Michigan, USA I am writing on a Tablet-PC,so forgive me if the PC misreads my handwriting. |
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