“Is there a difference between ceramic and porcelain crowns?”

Traditional porcelain crowns and ceramic crowns are both produced with high quality materials. The biggest difference between the two is the time it takes to have a completed procedure. Porcelain crowns usually take multiple visits over the course of a couple weeks. During this time, you would be fitted with a temporary crown.
For CEREC Same Day Ceramic crowns, the wait time is cut down drastically! Instead of waiting for weeks, you can walk out with a new permanent crown in one visit.
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There are two types of ceramic restorations, all porcelain with no metal core and porcelain with a metal core, aka PFM, porcelain fused to metal. Crowns can also be made with Zirconia. Choice of material depends on the treatment condition that presents.

Hello,

There are many different types of crowns. There are traditional porcelain fused to metal crowns and more currently zirconia crowns, which are very strong and milled out with a cad-cam Cerec machine in an hour so you don’t have to temporize and can be inserted same day! There are many different labs that call them by different names. I still do full gold crowns and all metal crowns on occasion, it depends how badly a person clenches/grinds his teeth!
Good luck. Thank you!

Dr. J

Porcelain is a type of ceramic. Porcelain crowns generally means there is a metal (precious or semi-precious coping or shell fabricated first), then porcelain powder is applied to the coping, shaped, condensed, and fired in an oven to produce the crown. Most often today, this has been replaced with a different type of ceramic which is milled first, then there’s or fired in an oven to create the finished crown. There is no metal substructure with this method.