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Lithium silicate glass ceramic with easy machinability

Grant US12577149B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Ivoclar Vivadent AG

Inventors

Christian Ritzberger

Abstract

A lithium silicate glass ceramic having lithium metasilicate as main crystal phase and having not more than 30 wt.-% of lithium metasilicate crystals and having the following components in the amounts indicated: ComponentWt.-%SiO271.0 to 82.0Li2O6.0 to 14.0MeI2O4.0 to 15.0Al2O32.0 to 10.0P2O50.5 to 7.0,wherein MeI2O is selected from Na2O, K2O, Rb2O, Cs2O and mixtures thereof, andwherein the molar ratio of SiO2 to Li2O is in the range of 2.5 to 5.0.

CPC Classifications

C03C 10/00 C03C 4/0021 C03C 2204/00 C03C 10/0009 C03C 3/097 C03C 10/0027 A61C 13/083 A61C 13/0004 C03B 32/02 A61K 6/802

Filing Date

2022-08-19

Application No.

17821111

Claims

18