Dental Porcelain

**Definition:** A type of porcelain used in dental restorations, either jacket crowns or inlays, artificial teeth, or metal-ceramic crowns. It is essentially a mixture of particles of feldspar and quartz, the feldspar melting first and providing a glass matrix for the quartz. Dental porcelain is produced by mixing ceramic powder (a mixture of quartz, kaolin, pigments, opacifiers, a suitable flux, and other substances) with distilled water. (From Jablonski's Dictionary of Dentistry, 1992)

**Tree numbers:** - D25.339.376 - J01.637.051.339.376 - J01.637.153.377

**Synonyms:** - Porcelain, Dental - Porcelain