A technique for the production of standard test specimens of aluminous dental porcelain.

Abstract

A technique has been developed for the preparation of test bars of the different types of aluminous porcelains using the standard laboratory procedures for the preparation of aluminous porcelain jacket crowns. Up to now the investigation of the properties of dental porcelain has been conducted using test specimens produced either by vibration of a slurry of porcelain powder without platinum foil or by grinding from the solid brock. These techniques are far removed from the methods used for the production of porcelain restorations in the laboratory. This might lead to a variation in the results achieved by testing porcelain jacket crowns on the one hand and test specimens on the other.