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Hey guys
I want to say some thoughts about choosing material for a hybrid and I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about that.
I'm an inlab technician and lately at the clinic we have a few cases over implants for hybrid design. The last hybrid that we did was with PEEk material and it was my first time using it ,no experience so I made mistakes I believe on the design( thin design ) and it broke . The patient was a heavy bruxist and I thought that PEEK was the best material to use Because of flexibility. Now after these I have to redo it so I will go to the safest route that is metal.
Now my question is when do you guys use PEEK when zirconia and when metal or even lately I've seen titanium and why?
I'm gonna tell you my reasoning and pls correct me if I'm wrong( reminder that I'm not very experienced [emoji4])
So let's start with strength that is the first thing that comes to my mind when I see these giant cases.
So metal has the advantage over all here so my money are on metal. But now I have to think that metal is not biocompatible and aesthetically not so nice as the other materials. But if you think many cases of those are above gingiva level so biocompatibility is not an issue. Now about the aesthetic part the problem is that metal is black and the other are white materials. But metal I'm gonna opaque cover the black color use composite for the tissue like I'm going to use on the other materials and use eMax or zirconia crowns on the opaque abudment teeth. So aesthetically speaking I can have a really good result too.
Another matter that I m thinking now is the weight of the metal in the mouth that the PEEK don't have and zirconia has but in a smaller degree. But again is that really so important for me to risk and do zirconia or PEEK and have the chance of breaking it and redoing it all over( time, money loss).
So these are my thoughts about these subject, maybe I'm not seeing some stuff or even maybe I'm seeing some stuf completely wrong.
I would love to hear your thoughts about how you decide which material to use and where I'm wrong on my thinking so I can improve and be able to decide better next time
Thanks
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I want to say some thoughts about choosing material for a hybrid and I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions about that.
I'm an inlab technician and lately at the clinic we have a few cases over implants for hybrid design. The last hybrid that we did was with PEEk material and it was my first time using it ,no experience so I made mistakes I believe on the design( thin design ) and it broke . The patient was a heavy bruxist and I thought that PEEK was the best material to use Because of flexibility. Now after these I have to redo it so I will go to the safest route that is metal.
Now my question is when do you guys use PEEK when zirconia and when metal or even lately I've seen titanium and why?
I'm gonna tell you my reasoning and pls correct me if I'm wrong( reminder that I'm not very experienced [emoji4])
So let's start with strength that is the first thing that comes to my mind when I see these giant cases.
So metal has the advantage over all here so my money are on metal. But now I have to think that metal is not biocompatible and aesthetically not so nice as the other materials. But if you think many cases of those are above gingiva level so biocompatibility is not an issue. Now about the aesthetic part the problem is that metal is black and the other are white materials. But metal I'm gonna opaque cover the black color use composite for the tissue like I'm going to use on the other materials and use eMax or zirconia crowns on the opaque abudment teeth. So aesthetically speaking I can have a really good result too.
Another matter that I m thinking now is the weight of the metal in the mouth that the PEEK don't have and zirconia has but in a smaller degree. But again is that really so important for me to risk and do zirconia or PEEK and have the chance of breaking it and redoing it all over( time, money loss).
So these are my thoughts about these subject, maybe I'm not seeing some stuff or even maybe I'm seeing some stuf completely wrong.
I would love to hear your thoughts about how you decide which material to use and where I'm wrong on my thinking so I can improve and be able to decide better next time
Thanks
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