Improvement of Strength Parameters of a Leucite-reinforced Glass Ceramic by Dual-ion Exchange

Abstract

An innovative dual ion-exchange process can improve the limited strength and the scatter-in-strength of technical glasses. The objective of this study was to prove whether such a two-stage ion-exchange process can also improve the limited strength and the problematic scatter-in-strength of dental ceramic materials. The first exchange was done in KN03 on a leucite-reinforced glass-ceramic material, the second exchange in 70 mol% KN03, 30 mol% Na N03 at different treatment times and temperatures. The dual-exchange process approximately doubled the Weibull strength. Moreover, the Weibull modulus showed a four-fold increase, i.e., the coefficients of variation were reduced from 18.3 to 4.7%. We conclude that the dual-exchange process may help significantly to increase the clinical reliability of glass-ceramic dental restorations, because the strength and the scatter-in-strength will be substantially improved by this treatment.

Keywords

ceramics reliability dual ion-exchange scatter in strength residual stresses.

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