Safe and biologically neutral materials
When natural teeth or parts of teeth need to be replaced, most patients want their dental restorations to be made from safe, biocompatible materials. Working closely with your dentist, we will provide you with exactly that.
All restorations from our dental laboratory are subject to the stringent German regulations governing medical products.
Biocompatibility
Biocompatible (biological neutral) materials have many advantages, for example they:
- are non-carcinogenic,
- do not cause changes to the genetic material within the body’s cells,
- are non-toxic
- and non-allergenic.
It is especially important that patients with allergies receive dental restorations that are biologically neutral. Although all materials used for restoration manufacture are, of course, foreign substances for the body, some are known to cause an allergic reaction and others are more readily tolerated by the body.
All-ceramic materials – such as the high tech ceramic zirconium oxide – are particularly biocompatible. Ceramics are as good as completely insoluble in the mouth and no interaction between the material and body tissue takes place. In most cases, patients who react allergically to metals can be successfully treated by fitting an all-ceramic restoration. For the best possible aesthetics and biocompatibility, all-ceramic dental prostheses are today’s first choice. Another important factor – with repercussions for the biological neutrality of dental restorations – is the combination of materials used in the mouth. In order to avoid material interaction, we keep the number of different materials used down to an absolute minimum.
German regulations governing medical products
All dental restorations made in Germany have to satisfy the provisions of a stringent set of regulations. The material composition of dental prostheses manufactured here must conform to specific directives, and conformity must be verifiable. The aim is to guarantee the highest possible level of product safety. The regulations stipulate that before medical products can be made available to patients they must satisfy all the prescribed criteria for safety (minimisation of side effects, guarantee of electrical and mechanical safety), function (ensuring therapeutic value, positive clinical appraisal of the product), control and inspection (manufacturer) and monitoring (life cycle of the product). When products are certified, they are marked “CE” ("Communauté Européene“).