An all-ceramic crown has no metal anywhere in it - light passes into the material and scatters the way it does in a real tooth, instead of stopping at an opaque core. It is what we fit when a crown has to stand next to natural teeth and not be spotted.
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What an all-ceramic crown is
An all-ceramic crown is made entirely of ceramic with no metal anywhere in it. Light passes through it much as it passes through enamel, which is why it looks like a tooth rather than like a very good copy of one.
The short answer. An E-max crown in Antalya is £200 a tooth, against about £825 privately in the UK. It is the best-looking crown available and the right choice for front teeth.
The trade against zirconia is strength. E-max is strong enough for front teeth and most premolars; for heavy molar work, zirconia is the safer material.
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Why E-max looks more natural
Natural enamel is translucent - light enters it, scatters and comes back out. An opaque crown stops light dead, and the eye reads that as artificial even when the colour is perfect.
Lithium disilicate transmits light in a way that mimics enamel closely, and it can be layered with different translucencies so the biting edge is more transparent than the body of the tooth. That gradient is what your eye is actually recognising when a crown looks real.
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E-max or zirconia: which crown
E-max at £200 - the better looking of the two. Front teeth, premolars, anywhere in the smile line.
Zirconia at £170 - the stronger. Molars, heavy bites, grinders, and long spans.
Many plans use both: E-max where it shows, zirconia where the work happens. A clinic insisting on one material for the whole mouth is simplifying its own workflow, not yours.
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How an E-max crown is made
The tooth is prepared and scanned. The crown is either pressed from a heated ingot or milled from a block, then crystallised in a furnace, which is the stage that converts it into its final, much stronger form.
After that it is layered, stained and glazed by hand to match your own teeth - shade, translucency and surface texture. On a front tooth the hand-finishing is most of the result.
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What E-max crowns cost
An E-max crown is £200 a tooth here, against around £825 privately in the UK. An E-max laminate veneer, where the tooth is sound and only the front needs covering, is £210.
If the tooth needs a root canal first that is £120, and a fibre post is £85. Every line is published before you decide anything.
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How long E-max crowns last
Five years of guarantee against breakage, chipping and cement failure, and ten to fifteen years in practice on a tooth that is looked after.
E-max is glass-ceramic, so it is more brittle than zirconia. Do not bite ice or open things with your teeth, and wear a night guard at £120 a jaw if you grind. That single item prevents most of the failures we see.
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Having E-max crowns fitted in Antalya
One trip of about a week. Consultation and X-rays, preparation and scans, temporaries while the lab works, a try-in to check shade and shape in daylight, then the fit.
Insist on the try-in. On front teeth it is the appointment where a crown either becomes right or becomes something you live with, and it is far easier to adjust before cementing.
Shade, shape and material
How your new smile is designed and made
Nothing is taken off a shelf. The colour, the shape of each tooth and the material are decided with you at the planning stage, then each piece is made for you in the laboratory inside the clinic building and tried in before it is fixed. This is what each of those decisions involves.
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The shade
Tooth colour is chosen from a standard shade guide, the same one dentists and laboratories use worldwide. It runs from the bleached whites, BL1 to BL4, into the natural range, where B1 and A1 are the brightest shades a tooth is born with and A2 is the most common colour in adults. The tabs are held against your own teeth, your skin and the whites of your eyes in daylight, because a shade that looks right under a lamp can look wrong outside.
Bleached shadesNatural shades
BL1
BL2
BL3
BL4
B1
A1
B2
D2
A2
C1
C2
D4
A3
D3
B3
A3.5
Where most patients landThe most common natural shade
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Choosing yours
Two or three steps brighter than your ownThat reads as fresh. Much more than that, and the teeth start to look brighter than the face around them.
Bleached shades suit a full setA single veneer or crown is matched to the teeth beside it, not to the chart, so it disappears among them.
Whiten first if you are keeping natural teethPorcelain does not change colour later. If some of your own teeth stay, they are whitened first and the shade is chosen against the result.
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The shape
Front teeth come in four broad families, and a smile design starts by choosing the one that suits your face. Length, width and how the edges sit against your lip when you speak are set at the same time.
SquareStraight edges and flat corners. Reads as strong and assured, and suits a broad or angular face.
OvoidSoftly rounded corners on a longer body. The most natural choice for most faces, and the most often chosen.
TaperedNarrower at the gum, widening towards the edge. Delicate and youthful, and suits a slim face.
RoundedFull curves at every corner. Gentle and friendly, often chosen to soften a strong jaw.
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The trial smile
Before any tooth is prepared, the design is built in wax on a model of your teeth and then placed over your own teeth as a temporary mock-up. You see the shade, the shape and the length in your own mouth and in your own photographs. Anything you want changed is changed then, before the porcelain is made, not after.
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The material
There is no best material, only the right one for each tooth. Front teeth are usually about how the light passes through; back teeth are about the bite. Your plan names the material for every tooth before you pay anything.
Material
How it looks
How strong
Best for
E-max (lithium disilicate)
The most lifelike. Light passes through it the way it passes through enamel.
Strong enough for any front tooth and for single crowns.
Veneers and front crowns, where looks matter most.
Zirconia
Bright and slightly more opaque, which is useful over a dark tooth.
The strongest ceramic there is. It does not chip.
Back teeth, bridges, full arches and heavy biters.
Layered zirconia
A zirconia core with porcelain layered on by hand for a natural surface.
The strength of zirconia underneath, the finish of porcelain on top.
Full smile makeovers that need both strength and looks.
Metal-ceramic
Porcelain over a metal cap. A dark line can show at the gum in time.
Proven over decades.
Back teeth where cost matters more than looks.
Six steps in the laboratory upstairs
How each piece is made
Every veneer and crown is made for one tooth in one mouth, in a laboratory inside the clinic building, so a try-in and an adjustment happen the same day rather than after a courier. Machines do the measuring and the cutting; people do the colour, the surface and the final check against your own teeth.
01The scanA digital scanner records your prepared teeth in a few minutes. No trays of impression putty.
02The designA technician designs each tooth on screen against your photographs and the trial smile you approved.
03MillingThe design is cut from a solid disc of zirconia, or pressed from an E-max ingot, to a tenth of a millimetre.
04LayeringPorcelain is painted on by hand in thin layers to build the depth and translucency of a real tooth.
05Firing and glazingEach piece is fired, then stained and glazed by hand and checked against your shade tab in daylight.
06The try-inEvery piece is tried in and adjusted before it is bonded. You approve it in the mirror first.
Answered plainly
All-ceramic crowns: your questions answered
Still not sure? A clinician talks it through before you commit to anything.
£200 a tooth against about £825 privately in the UK. An E-max laminate veneer is £210.
Is E-max strong enough for a back tooth?
For premolars generally yes. For molars in a heavy bite, zirconia at £170 is the safer material.
Crown or veneer on a front tooth?
Veneer if the tooth is sound and only the front needs changing. Crown if it is broken down, root-treated or heavily filled. The dentist should show you why.
Will there be a dark line at the gum?
No. That line is a metal core showing through as gums recede, and there is no metal in an all-ceramic crown.
Can E-max be matched to my other teeth?
Yes, and this is where it beats every other material. Shade, translucency and surface texture are matched by hand at the try-in.
Should I whiten first?
Yes. Ceramic holds the shade it is made at, so whiten, let the colour settle, then match.
How much tooth is removed?
Enough to make room for the ceramic all round - more than a veneer, less than a metal-based crown. It is not reversible.
What if it chips at home?
Covered by the five-year guarantee, with a contribution of up to £90 toward a local repair where returning is impractical.
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