Crowns

We offer three different products:

Porcelain Jacket Crown

The most aesthetically favorable crown, which provides the best natural color match than any other crown type and maybe more suitable for people with metal allergies. However, they are not strong as porcelain-fused to-metal crowns and they wear down opposing teeth a little more than a metal or resin crowns. All ceramic crowns are a good choice for front teeth.

All-ceramic crowns offer the advantage that their appearance is usually more lifelike than porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) dental crowns. Enamel is a translucent covering over a tooth and has very characteristic light handling abilities. An all-ceramic dental crown can provide a similar type of covering for a tooth and handle light in a way that closely mimics that of dental enamel. Another advantage of all-ceramic crowns over PFM's is that there is no edge of metal substructure that has the potential to spoil the crown's cosmetic appearance if the tooth's gum level changes.

E.max Stained/Layered

IPS e.max® is made of monolithic lithium disilicate ceramic and delivers outstanding esthetics and precision fit. An affordable alternative to PFM's and zirconia-based restorations, IPS e.max can be pressed or milled.

Prescribe IPS e.max to achieve optimal esthetics, virtually perfect contacts and occlusion, and impressive strength. Its unique lithium disilicate ceramic provides flexural strength of 360-400 MPa, making it the ideal high-strength solution for single-unit anterior or posterior crowns, veneers, inlays, onlays, screw-retained implant crowns, 3-unit anterior bridges or restorations with minimum preparation dimensions.

Conventionally cement using resin ionomer cements or bond for maximum retention on nonretentive preparations. Lithium disilicate ceramic is biocompatible and provides more than double the flexural strength of IPS Empress® Esthetic.

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