Zirconia Crowns & Bridges in the Philippines:
Your Guide to a Strong, Beautiful Smile with Tooth&Go

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Why Zirconia Crowns Are the Best Choice for Philippine Smiles?

Zirconia crowns stand out in terms of aesthetics and biocompatibility.

Nevertheless, we need to differentiate between full zirconia crowns and crowns made out of a zirconia core but layered with ceramics. The pros and cons are listed at the bottom of this page. At Tooth&Go, we specialize in crafting custom Zirconia restorations that not only look incredibly natural but are also designed to last, giving you confidence in every smile and every bite.

What makes Zirconia crowns the best choice for your dental crown or bridge?

  • Outstanding Aesthetics: With its natural, tooth-like translucency and ability to blend with existing tooth substance, Zirconia cores veneered with ceramic blend seamlessly integrate with your existing dentition, making them ideal for visible teeth in the front as well as premolars and molars.
  • Exceptional Durability: Monolithic Zirconia is one of the strongest crown types used in dentistry, resisting chips, cracks, and wear even in high-chewing-pressure areas.
  • Biocompatible: Zirconia is a highly biocompatible material, meaning it’s well-tolerated by your body and causes no allergic reactions, promoting healthy gum tissue. According to Liagre et al. [1], Zirconia does not harm cells.
  • Metal-Free Solution: Unlike traditional PFM (Porcelain Fused to Metal) crowns, Zirconia is entirely metal-free, eliminating the risk of metal allergy and the potential for a dark line at the gum level, which compromises aesthetic appearance.
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How much does a Zirconia Crown Cost in the Philippines?

At Tooth&Go, our Zirconia crowns typically start from PHP 25,000 per crown.

This investment covers:

  • Your initial consultation and digital assessment.
  • Precision preparation of the tooth.
  • Digital impressions and custom design.
    Fabrication of your high-quality Zirconia crown using advanced CAD/CAM technology.
  • Professional fitting and cementation.

We encourage you to schedule a consultation with us for a tailored quote.

The Tooth&Go Advantage: Precision Zirconia Crowns & Bridges

At Tooth&Go, we don’t just place crowns; we create smiles with the highest attention to detail using the most modern facilities. Our commitment to excellence gives you the best possible standard of dental care and results that exceed expectations.

Our State-of-the-Art Zirconia Procedure:

Initial examination

Tooth Preparation with Comfort

Digital Impressions & Virtual Design

In-House Precision Milling

Sintering

Artistic ceramic build-up, Staining, and Glazing

Perfect Fit using Microscope

We begin with a chairside check-up, utilizing intraoral scanners, smile design software, and conventional X-rays to gain a necessary understanding of the teeth requiring restoration.

We gently prepare the tooth, ensuring minimal removal of healthy tooth structure while creating the ideal foundation for your new crown.

We use advanced digital scanners, such as Cerec or Panda, to create precise 3D printed models of your teeth. Our skilled dental laboratory technicians then digitally design your Zirconia crown, ensuring a perfect fit, ideal bite, and aesthetic harmony.

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Our office utilizes several zirconia milling units to grind out zirconia crowns from pre-sintered blanks. Due to this in-house dental laboratory, quality assurance is guaranteed.

All zirconia crowns require a high-temperature treatment, which can take several hours, depending on the size and length of the restoration.

Each crown undergoes careful hand-finishing to achieve the best possible aesthetic results and a natural look.

Before the final installation, we meticulously fit your new Zirconia crown using a microscope, ensuring an ideal fit.

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  • Initial examination: We begin with a chairside check-up, utilizing intraoral scanners, smile design software, and conventional X-rays to gain a necessary understanding of the teeth requiring restoration.
  • Tooth Preparation with Comfort: We gently prepare the tooth, ensuring minimal removal of healthy tooth structure while creating the ideal foundation for your new crown.
  • Digital Impressions & Virtual Design: We use advanced digital scanners, such as Cerec or Panda, to create precise 3D printed models of your teeth. Our skilled dental laboratory technicians then digitally design your Zirconia crown, ensuring a perfect fit, ideal bite, and aesthetic harmony.
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  • In-House Precision Milling: Our office utilizes several zirconia milling units to grind out zirconia crowns from pre-sintered blanks. Due to this in-house dental laboratory, quality assurance is guaranteed.
  • Sintering: All zirconia crowns require a high-temperature treatment, which can take several hours, depending on the size and length of the restoration.
  • Artistic ceramic build-up, Staining, and Glazing: Each crown undergoes careful hand-finishing to achieve the best possible aesthetic results and a natural look.

 

  • Perfect Fit using Microscope: Before the final installation, we meticulously fit your new Zirconia crown using a microscope, ensuring an ideal fit.
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Our Expertise in Zirconia Dental Solutions

With 18 years of experience and thousands of successful Zirconia crowns and bridges placed, our team at Tooth&Go has the proven expertise to deliver durable, beautiful, and long-lasting results. We stay updated with the latest upgrades in dental materials and technology to ensure you receive the very best in Zirconia crown technology.

Zirconia vs. Other Crown Materials: Making the Right Choice

Choosing the right dental crown material can be a difficult task. Here’s how Zirconia compares to other popular dental materials commonly used in the Philippines:

Feature
Zirconia Crowns (Zirconia Framework with Porcelain Veneering)
Monolithic Zirconia Crowns
Emax Crowns (Lithium Disilicate)
PFM Crowns (Porcelain Fused to Metal)
Aesthetics
Excellent: Highly natural, translucent, blends seamlessly. Ideal for all teeth.
Good: Less translucent, more opaque compared to layered ceramics.
Very good: High translucency with light-breaking leucite crystals for a natural appearance.
Average: Natural-looking, nevertheless, the metal core doesn't allow light penetration; the metal margin can be visible.
Strength
Good: Powerful, but chipping of layered porcelain can occur after years of wear.
Strongest of all materials: The fracture strength of monolithic zirconia crowns is higher than the maximum biting forces in the premolar area [2].
High: Very strong, with vergood survival rates (14 years study 4) but less robust than Monolithic Zirconia for molar crowns.
Good: Strong, but porcelain can chip from the metal.
Durability
Long-lasting: Designed for decades of service with proper care.
Exceptionally long-lasting, often for decades.
Long-lasting: Excellent durability.
Good: Can last many years.
Biocompatibility
Excellent: Metal-free, highly biocompatible with gums and surrounding soft tissues.
Excellent: Metal-free, highly biocompatible, minimal risk of allergic reactions.
Excellent: Metal-free, tissue-friendly, safe for long-term use.
Poor: Allergies associated with gold- or cobalt chromium-based alloys have been reported [3].

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

There’s no certain lifespan for zirconia crowns. They can last for decades if hygiene is good and the crown is of excellent quality.

Zirconia crowns in the Philippines cost on average from 17,000-35,000 Php per unit. Our price starts at 25,000 PHP per unit zirconia crown.

According to Liagre et al. [1], Zirconia does not harm cells and is biocompatible.

The core of a PFM crown is made of metal, unlike Zirconia. The metal can affect the aesthetics of the crown and can cause allergies.

Zirconia is the ideal material for aesthetic front crowns. They look very natural due to their white and translucent core.

1. Effects of alumina and zirconium dioxide particles on arachidonic acid metabolism and proinflammatory interleukin production in osteoarthritis and rheumatoid synovial cells. Liagre B, Moalic S, Vergne P, Charissoux JL, Bernache-Assollant D, Beneytout JL. J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2002;84:920–930. doi: 10.1302/0301-620x.84b6.12457. [DOI] [PubMed]


2: Abdulazeez MI, Majeed MA. Fracture Strength of Monolithic Zirconia Crowns with Modified Vertical Preparation: A Comparative In Vitro Study. Eur J Dent. 2022 Feb;16(1):209-214. doi: 10.1055/s-0041-1735427. Epub 2021 Nov 30. PMID: 34847612; PMCID: PMC8890931.Pubmed

3: Levi, S. Barak, J. Katz
Allergic reactions associated with metal alloys in porcelain-fused-to-metal fixed prosthodontic devices- A systematic review
Quintessence Int, 43 (2012), pp. 871-877 View in Scopus

Written by:
Dr. Jens Knab,
(Dental Approbation Rheinland Pfalz, Germany)
DMD, MSc Implantology

Master of Science in Dental Implantology (Uni Camillus, Italy)
Founder, Tooth & Go Dental Clinic, Parañaque