Basic Material Overview

i-esthetic ® ADVANCED is suitable for dentine bonded inlays, overlays and full crowns with clear and definable preps and impressions (not that you would send us anything that didn't have clear and definable margins would you!)

i-esthetic ® ADVANCED is made from IPS e.max HT LITHIUM DISILICATE, when this amazing material is added to the service offerings of SBO Dental Laboratory you get i-esthetic ® ADVANCED

e.max HT + Certification + CADCAM + made by SBO Dental Laboratory = i-esthetic ® ADVANCED

e.max HT is one of the MOST AMAZING materials we have ever seen at SBO. It has an opalescent property that mimics natural enamel in a way we have never seen before, try this test....hold an i-esthetic ® ADVANCED crown/inlay up to the light and rotate it so the light relfects at different angles. You will be amazed at the natural blue and orange colours you see, just like a natural tooth!

Ivoclar says:
'Ivoclar Vivadent’s patented lithium disilicate material is truly a revolution for the dental industry. Never before has a material been able to combine high strength, high esthetics and ease of use into one product, until now.

IPS e.max Lithium Disilicate is a high strength ceramic material with 360-400 MPa of flexural strength.
When fabricated to full-contour or in a monolithic state, lithium disilicate is an extremely durable material.

Failures in zirconia veneered restorations are the result of a very weak porcelain material (80-120 MPA) having chewing forces exerted upon it.
The 1,000 MPa zirconia substructure remains in tact but the failure of the layering porcelain is ultimately a failure of the restoration.

With monolithic lithium disilicate, the work of mastication is being done on a 360-400 MPa material. This strength is homogenous throughout the entire restoration

Several internal Ivoclar Vivadent tests have demonstrated that the monolithic Lithium Disilicate is incredibly durable and that the zirconia veneered resotrations fail with less load and fewer chewing cycles.

*Mouth Motion Fatigue and Durability Study
Petra C Guess, Ricardo Zavanelli,Nelson Silva and Van P Thompson, New York University, March 2009
1 90% failure by 100,000 cycles
2 No failures at 1 million cycles'

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Basic Material Overview

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Copyright © 2009 SBO Dental Laboratory