If a tooth needs a zirconia crown because of decay or a crack? Zirconia crown explanation from a dental clinic that uses oral scanning

Are you considering crown treatment?

Zirconia crowns are beautiful like natural teeth and also highly durable, so they satisfy both aesthetics and function. For that reason, most dental clinics these days use zirconia as the basic crown material.

Today, we will explain zirconia crowns at

Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic, a 3-minute walk straight from Exit 7 of City Hall Station in Seoul.

The photos are actual treatment cases from our clinic and were posted with the patient’s consent.

Zirconia crown

A zirconia crown uses a material that combines both aesthetics and strength.

Unlike the gold crowns used long ago, it is white, so it does not stand out.

• Zirconia crown for front teeth

Can you tell which front tooth is a zirconia crown? ↓

Can you tell which front tooth is a zirconia crown?

2. Zirconia crown for molars

Zirconia crown process

First visit: Diagnosis, start of tooth shaping for the crown, oral scan

(For zirconia crowns, our clinic uses an oral scan with an intraoral scanner rather than a rubber impression.)

Since the tooth has already been prepared, we make and place a temporary tooth on the spot while it hardens directly in the mouth, so if this is your first day starting crown work, please plan to spend about 1 hour at the clinic.

Second visit: Zirconia crown placement (usually completed and ready for placement within 1 week, 3 business days later)

We do not send the crown to an in-house lab,

but instead entrust it to a well-known laboratory specializing in zirconia crowns.

For zirconia crowns at our clinic,

we use an oral scan rather than a rubber impression.

Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic performs zirconia crowns using an oral scan instead of taking impressions.

If you use an oral scanner, the materials and treatments suitable for fabrication are almost fixed.

When an oral scan is taken for a zirconia crown with an intraoral scanner,

1. More precise crown fabrication

When taking an impression, errors can occur due to the impression process itself, or due to expansion and contraction when plaster is poured into the impression. If an oral scan is taken directly in the patient’s mouth, there is no need to take an impression, so those errors are eliminated.

2. Minimizes patient discomfort

You do not have to keep biting down on a sticky impression material like before. Gag reflexes caused by the rubber material and discomfort from the impression material are minimized.

3. Faster work through digital fabrication

Oral scan data is sent immediately to the laboratory without delivery by courier or express service, reducing transport time and shortening the production period. Therefore, our clinic can complete the crown within 3 business days and place it in the patient’s mouth, making it possible for foreigners

and overseas Koreans to receive a crown while visiting Korea for a short trip.

Now, more comfortable and more precise with oral scans!

Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic near City Hall Station uses a digital intraoral scanner to fabricate zirconia crowns.

Treating a broken tooth with a zirconia crown

Side view of the zirconia crown in the case above ↓

Yonsei Yegam Dental Clinic near City Hall Station is visited by patients from overseas for treatment

Photo of the clinic director appearing on a broadcast