Surface properties of dental zirconia ceramics affected by ultrasonic scaling and low-temperature degradation.

Zirconia (3Y-TZP) dental prostheses are widely used in clinical dentistry. However, the effect of ultrasonic scaling performed as a part of professional tooth cleaning on 3Y-TZP dental prostheses, especially in conjunction with low-temperature degradation (LTD), has not been fully investigated. The...

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Main Authors: Kosuke Nakazawa, Keisuke Nakamura, Akio Harada, Midori Shirato, Ryoichi Inagaki, Ulf Örtengren, Taro Kanno, Yoshimi Niwano, Hiroshi Egusa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6136777?pdf=render