Crown & Bridge

Anterior/bicuspid single crowns & bonded veneers (can be used for posterior crowns, inlays & onlays if bonded)

  • Monolithic structure enables strength without bonding for anterior units
  • Layered porcelain anteriors—cut back of IPS e.max® Press material to add translucency/internal characterization is standard for anterior crowns, or as prescribed by dentist
  • Conventional cementation for anterior crowns (can be etched/bonded to double strength)
  • 20 ingot shades to start with for perfect shade match
  • Limited flexural strength
  • Must bond to attain best strength results
  • Sub-Structure: Improved Lithium Disilicate
    • IPS e.max® Press 400 MPa Flexural Strength
    • IPS e.max® CAD 360 MPa Flexural Strength
    • Core translucency= 0.74 @ 0.3 mm thick
  • Overlay Material: Fluorapatite Porcelain – Ivoclar IPS e-max ceram
    • 120 MPa Flexural Strength
  • Sub-structure: Wax sub-structure then press
  • Overlay: Hand stack and oven fire porcelain
IPS Empress® Esthetic

Etched, bonded veneers, anterior crowns, and ¾ crowns

  • Superior Esthetics
  • Translucency
  • Optimized shade match using 11 ingot shades (including bleached shades)
  • Leucite reinforced ceramic kind to opposing dentition
  • Homogeneous material with or without porcelain overlay
  • Characterizations accomplished through surface stain techniques
  • Must bond to achieve full strength!
  • Structure: Leucite reinforced glass ceramic
    • 160 MPa Flexural Strength

Structure: Wax then press using the special pressing oven EP600

Gold Crowns and Bridges
  • Single Crowns & Bridges
  • ¾ Crowns
  • Inlays/Onlays
  • Posts
  • Longest lasting fixed restoration
  • Will not fracture
  • Certified Bio-compatible
  • No Nickel or Beryllium

Some patients want only tooth colored restorations

  • Structure: High Noble Metal, Type 4 – Ivoclar’s XL-X (62.8% Au)
  • Vickers hardness: 225
  • Other Alloy Choices:
  • High Noble Metal, Type 2 – Ivoclar’s Academy (77.2% Au)
  • Noble, Type 4 – Ivoclar Mini-Gold (40% AU)
  • Structure: Non-Precious
  • Bego Wirobond® C (61% Co, 26% Cr)

Structure: Hand wax-up and Induction Casting

Non-Precious Crowns
  • Single Crowns
  • 3/4 Crown
  • Bridge
  • Inlay / Onlay
  • Full
  • Longest lasting fixed restoration
  • Will not fracture
  • Certified Bio-compatible
  • No Nickel or Beryllium

Some patients want only tooth colored restorations

  • Structure: Non-Precious Alloy -Bego Wirobond® C (61% Co, 26% Cr)
  • 1200MPa Flexural Strength
  • Core translucency= 1.0 @ 0.8 mm thic
  • Full

Structure: Hand wax-up and Induction Casting

IPS e.max ZirCAD Multi
  • Anterior: crowns and bridges
  • Posterior: crowns and bridges
  • Metal free biocompatibility
  • High strength
  • Enhanced translucency
  • Eliminates dark margins
  • Reduces risk of fractures
  • Fixed pricing
  • CAD-CAM Monolithic
  • >850 MPa flexural strength
  • Anterior: crowns and bridges
  • Posterior: crowns and bridges
  • Metal free biocompatibility
  • High strength
  • Enhanced translucency
  • Eliminates dark margins
  • Reduces risk of fractures
  • Fixed pricing
  • CAD-CAM monolithic zirconia
  • >1000 MPa flexural strength
  • Anterior: crowns and bridges
  • Posterior: *Pre-molars only
  • Metal free biocompatibility
  • High strength
  • Enhanced translucency
  • Eliminates dark margins
  • Reduces risk of fractures
  • Fixed pricing
  • CAD-CAM & Special Customization
  • >1000 MPa flexural strength
  • Single crowns, short & long-span bridges, implant supported crown & bridge
  • Yellow – D.Sign 96
  • White – Evolution Lite
  • GC Initial™ premium porcelain
  • Excellent Strength
  • High gold content for purity/color stability
  • Premium porcelain for esthetics
  • Certified Bio-compatible
  • Needs 1.5mm for optimum esthetics
  • Super-Gingival margins with standard metal design at margin may show a dark line
  • Sub-Structure: High Noble Metal Alloy – Ivoclar IPS d.Sign 96
  • 215 Vickers Hardness
  • Sub-Structure: High Noble Metal Alloy – Ivoclar Evolution Lite
  • Overlay Material: Fluorapatite Porcelain – GC Initial® Premium Porcelain
  • 120 MPa Flexural Strength
  • Sub-Structure: Hand wax-up and Induction Casting
  • Overlay Material: Hand Stacking and oven firing
  • Single crowns, short & long-span bridges, implant supported crown & bridge
  • White – Callisto CPG (24.6% Pd, 39.9% Co, 21.3% Cr)
  • GC Initial™ premium porcelain
  • Cost effective alternative to gold alloys
  • Excellent strength
  • Premium porcelain for esthetics
  • Certified Bio-compatible
  • Needs 1.5mm for optimum esthetics
  • Super-Gingival margins with standard metal design at margin may show a dark line
  • Sub-Structure: Noble Metal Alloy – Callisto CPG (24.6% Pd, 39.9% Co, 21.3% Cr)
  • Vickers hardness: 338
  • Overlay Material: Fluorapatite Porcelain – GC Initial® Premium Porcelain
  • 120 MPa Flexural Strength
  • Sub-Structure: Hand wax-up and Induction Casting
  • Overlay Material: Hand Stacking and oven firing
Non-Precious PFM
  • Single crowns, short-span bridges, long-span bridges
  • White – Bego Wirobond C (63.8% Co, 24.8% Cr, 5.3% W, 5.1% Mo, <1% Si, Fe)
  • GC Initial™ premium porcelain
  • Diastema closure
  • Improve alignment
  • Improve shade
  • Restore proportion & balance

Not a substitute for orthodontics or major misalignment

  • Nickel and beryllium free, Cr-Co alloy
  • Biocompatible
  • Anterior & bicuspid crowns
  • Anterior & bicuspid bridges (up to 6 units)
  • Posterior crowns & bridges (up to 6 units)
  • Can be seated over implant abutments
  • Premium esthetics
  • Internal coloring/characterization (featuring hand stacked porcelain on zirconia substrate)
  • PFM replacement
  • Natural light transmission (no “grey line”)
  • 1.5mm of axial reduction, 360 degree rounded-chamfer margins preferred
  • CAD/CAM designed & milled substrate for consistency/accuracy
  • Cost effective
  • Conventional cementation (no bonding)
  • Vita shades

Must have at least 1.2mm of reduction for optimum esthetics

  • Sub-Structure: Metoxit yttria-stabilized zirconia
  • 1200 MPa Flexural Strength
  • Core translucency= 0.98 @ 0.3 mm thick
  • Yttria stabilized zirconia is Dental Direkt – a German ISO 13485 certified manufacturer
  • Overlay Material: VITA VM®9 fine-grain porcelain
  • Sub-Structure: Scanned, milled, and sintered
  • Overlay: Hand stack and oven fire porcelain
EZ Veneers™
  • Diastema closure
  • Improve alignment
  • Improve shade
  • Restore proportion & balance
  • “Minimal prep/no prep” veneers
  • Can be reversible
  • Cost effective
  • Simple procedure
  • Short delivery time
  • Minimal adjustment

Not a substitute for orthodontics or major misalignment

EVA – ethyl vinyl acetate, a copolymer

  • Diagnostic wax-up
  • Model duplication
  • Vacuum formed stent w/access openings & tooth separation components
  • Chairside flowable composite application
  • Laboratory fabricated stent based on preoperative diagnostic wax-up. Stent is designed with access and separation components for a flowable composite delivery system.