Types of Dental Veneers:
Full Porcelain (Empress) Teeth
These crowns are ideal for anterior tooth restoration as they are translucent and look like your natural teeth. Today, all porcelain crowns are considered the most beautiful crown a tooth can get. Porcelain teeth are a kind of ceramic, and ceramic simply means porcelain.
The only crown that gives the desired translucent appearance to the tooth is pure porcelain. The major disadvantage of using all porcelain crowns to restore the anterior tooth is that while they are placed for their aesthetic appeal, the expertise required to place them is very difficult.
Their color is translucent and often their color is affected by the underlying teeth.
There are several types of these crowns;
Feldspathic porcelain: It is the most used and made traditional type.
Empress Crown: It looks like glass and can be called ceramic.
Procera Crown: The inner part is ceramic and the outer part is traditional porcelain. This crown is used for its extraordinary strength. An ordinary bridge can be glued with the help of cement and crowns.
Lava Crown: It has a translucent Zirconia inside, so it looks beautiful from the outside because of its baked layer.
Zirconia Crowns: Look natural and don't show a black line like other crowns on the gum line.
Emax Crowns: It is getting more and more popular nowadays. These crowns are best suited for people allergic to metals. Our natural tooth is translucent and these crowns are the only crowns with this translucency.