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Cercon® ht Full Contour Zirconia
DENTSPLY Prosthetics · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Cercon ht zirconia is the next generation of Cercon technology, brought to you by Dentsply Prosthetics. Learn why...See more the market is moving towards all-ceramic restorations and how Cercon ht can save you time and money while providing strong and esthetic full contour restorations.
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Cercon® ht Full Contour Zirconia (Hands-On)
DENTSPLY Prosthetics · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Cercon ht zirconia is the next generation of Cercon technology brought to you by Dentsply Prosthetics and Compartis®...See more SmartSourcing Services. Learn to achieve 16 custom shades using the Cercon® Stain and Glaze Kit, specially designed for highly esthetic results for full contour zirconia restorations.
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Custom Zirconia Abutments—The Next Big Thing!
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies/Digital Dental · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Scott Atkin, RCDT, RMDT, presents advances in low-cost custom zirconia abutments. As the baby boomers age, implant...See more dentistry will be a profitable new growth area for laboratories that develop their expertise and establish market presence early.
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Full Contour Zirconia Advanced Esthetics Course
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies/Digital Dental · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Nelson Bonet provides an overview of advanced techniques for obtaining esthetic results from full contour and layered...See more zirconia. He also offers design and milling tips and an overview of various shading, staining, glazing, and polishing systems and techniques.
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How to Make Huge Profits with Full Contour Zirconia
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies/Digital Dental · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Scott Atkin, RCDT, RMDT, presents recent clinical results, scientific research and market data regarding zirconia...See more restorations, including a cost analysis showing how solid "translithic" zirconia offers low material and labor costs while producing a lifetime restoration.
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Learn the Quick 2-Minute Zirconia 3-D Shading Technique
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies/Digital Dental · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Nelson Bonet teaches the two-minute zirconia 3-D microbrush staining technique to achieve natural-looking full...See more contour zirconia restorations. He discusses how to achieve best possible results on full contour anterior restorations.
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Learn Together, Succeed Together
Zirkonzahn USA, Inc. · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Zirconium silicate has proven over the years to be a valuable substitute to metal in most rehabilitations. Enrico...See more Steger, MDT, speaks about his experience with the material, offers tips for enhancing your profitability, insights on the current scientific data and the results of current studies with zirconia.
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New Techniques in Shading and Staining Zirconia
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies/Digital Dental · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Nelson Bonet discusses advanced techniques for obtaining natural esthetic results from full contour and layered...See more zirconia. He offers design and milling tips, an overview of various shading, staining, glazing and polishing systems and techniques.
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The New Origin IntelligenceS Certified Scan and Design Training (Crown & Bridge)
B&D Dental Technologies · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Bring the power of CAD/CAM to your laboratory with a low-cost, high-value system that provides all the necessary...See more tools for comprehensive design of crown and bridge, implant abutments and Origin LIVE™ Full Contour Zirconia. Jim Campbell shows how easy it is to use and even easier to own the Origin Intelligence scanner, now featuring a smaller footprint and faster scanning time.
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The Revolutionary Origin Live Plus 2-in-1 Zirconia: Learn a Simple Coloring Process to Create Gradation of Chroma™ with a Translucent Incisal Effect
B&D Dental Technologies · LAB DAY Chicago 2013
Vincent Tauro explains how the Origin Live Plus Zirconia 2-in-1 system allows users to mill strong, translucent...See more substructures and full contour restorations on the same disc. When paired with The Chroma™ FC Zirconia Coloring Technique, you infuse more life and beauty into your full contour restorations and watch them come a "Live." Also learn key zirconia characteristics to look for and how to achieve esthetic and reliable results.
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Zirconia
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3D Milling Center Implant Abutments
3D Milling Center · Consumables
3D MILLING CENTER can scan, design and mill your custom titanium, zirconia or two-piece abutment using its 3Shape, Nobel Biocare Procera or Straumann Etkon scanners. Its expert designers are highly skilled...See more in custom abutment design. You can also scan and design your own custom abutments for even more cost savings if you have a 3Shape scanner. 3D Milling Center is an authorized 3Shape dealer.
Hybrid and Titanium Implant Abutments
Aurident's Delta Milling Center provides hybrid or titanium custom abutments for a number of the most popular implant systems at an economical price. Aurident can mill abutment copings from either Aurident's...See more Delta Zirconia or BruxZir® Zirconia. Turnaround time for completed cases is typically four to five working days after receipt of models or scans.
Aadva Abutments
GC Advanced Technologies, Inc. · Consumables
GC Advanced Technologies Inc. (GCAT), a subsidiary of GC America, offers custom CAD/CAM implant abutments in a variety of materials and are available in Titanium, All Zirconia or Blend (Hybrid). The Aadva...See more Blend Abutment combines the strength of a titanium base with the esthetics of a zirconia top, and the Blend Abutments base is gold anodized for maximum esthetics. The All Zirconia and Blend Abutments are offered in 10 different shades. GCAT accepts 3Shape .stl files, models and customer waxups.
Titanium and Hybrid Zirconia Custom Implant Abutm
Custom Automated Prosthetics (CAP) · Consumables
CUSTOM AUTOMATED PROSTHETICS (CAP) offers competitively priced titanium and hybrid zirconia custom implant abutments. CAP's implant department is staffed with technicians who have extensive implant experience....See more For customers who want to approve the design of the abutments prior to fabrication, CAP provides a video that you view online showing the case from every angle.
ICE Zirconia Ceramic
Zirkonzahn USA, Inc. · Consumables
ZIRKONZAHN's ICE Zirconia Ceramic has a flexural strength of approximately 90MPa and a CTE value of 9.6 that doesn't change even after repeated firings, eliminating the danger of cracks. The set contains...See more all the materials required to fabricate natural, esthetic restorations: 16 Classic VITA® shades, four enamel materials, 17 modifiers for individual characterization, six tissue shades, 16 Dentin+ shades, and 21 Dynamik Dentin and intensive shades.
Zirconia Blocks
Qinhuangdao Aidite High-technical Ceramics Co.,Ltd · Digital Fabrication
QINHUANGDAO AIDITE HIGH-TECHNICAL CERAMIC CO., LTD has been manufacturing professional dental zirconia ceramic blocks in China since 2007. It offers a wide variety of blocks, all of which have passed...See more the FDA k111291 and CE 0029 certification and ISO 13485 medical system.
Crystal® Zirconia
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies · Digital Fabrication
DLMS now offers five different formulas of zirconia, including the new Crystal Diamond Plus Zirconia for full contour restorations and two new formulas of the budget zDent brand. The new Crystal Diamond...See more Plus zirconia is extremely strong (1,250 MPa) and translucent and available in discs and blocks for all major milling machines.
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Zirconia Blocks
Bloomden Bioceramics Co., Ltd. · Digital Fabrication
BLOOMDEN BIOCERAMICS CO. provides highly translucent, full contour zirconia blocks compatible with various CAD/CAM milling systems. The company also provides a variety of other CAD/CAM milling materials—including...See more PMMA, wax and titanium blanks—as well as milling burs and a zirconia sintering furnace.
Zirconia Blocks
Kerox Dental, Ltd. · Digital Fabrication
KEROX DENTAL is a multi-national dental manufacturer with customers in over 45 countries and 30 years' experience in ceramic production. It holds several patents for its isostatically pressed, highly translucent...See more Zircostar zirconia blocks which are compatible with a variety of milling systems. The company has recently opened distribution in Atlanta; William Leo is the Managing Director, North America.
NexxZr Zirconia
Sagemax Bioceramics, Inc. · Digital Fabrication
SAGEMAX's comprehensive line of NexxZr zirconia now includes NexxZr T, its highest translucency zirconia which allows 50% light transmission, and NexxZr S, the strongest zirconia in the line with a strength...See more of 1,500 MPa. At LAB DAY Chicago, Sagemax formally releases an addition to the NexxZr family: highly translucent, pre-shaded zirconia discs.
Zirconia Discs
Talladium, Inc. · Digital Fabrication
TALLADIUM offers multiple materials and sizes for your milling needs. Its yttria-stablizied zirconia is manufactured using high quality powder resulting in excellent translucency. The blocks/discs are...See more isostatically cold pressed and partially sintered, producing a quality fit available for single units and up to six-unit frameworks with no distortion. For quality temporaries and try-ins, the PMMA discs are formulated from a special blend of polymers that burns out cleanly, making them ideal for the lost wax technique. The company also offers wax discs formulated in-house by experienced technicians.
Zirconia Milling and Tools
Zro2 · Subcontracting Services
ZRO2 GROUP introduces its new milling center that mills frameworks, bars, bridges and copings using your model or .stl file. The company also offers diamond-coated ZrO2 tools and...See more new CrCo and titanium tools, all of which are delivered worldwide within 24 to 48 hours.
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Contourz Zirconia
Contourz • Full Contour Zirconia Crown Ready for Stain and Glaze
Lava Zirconia Frameworks
Custom Automated Prosthetics (CAP) · Tools / Services
CAP brings you the most recognized name in zirconia. Lava zirconia has a 1200 MPa rating, and is available in 8 shades (Vita shade guide). CAP has produced thousands of Lava units and offers full design...See more support. CAP has the design expertise and the time-tested products to fabricate the quality restorations you want!
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CAP FZ - Full Contour Zirconia with MultiShade
Custom Automated Prosthetics (CAP) · Tools / Services
CAP FZ is milled from the most aesthetic full contour zirconia available. We mill your restoration and perform a multi-color shading process that dramatically enhances the aesthetics. We then sinter the...See more restoration and return it to you ready to stain and glaze. CAP FZ is indicated for full crowns and small bridges. We are now accepting digital files from 3Shape or Dental Wings, or we can produce CAP FZ from your models using our proprietary anatomic library.
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Screw-Retained Full Contour Zirconia Crown - CAP FZ
Custom Automated Prosthetics (CAP) · Tools / Services
CAP has developed a process for producing our CAP FZ crowns in the form of a screw-retained implant supported crowns. This restoration has a titanium base that interfaces with the implant, and also has...See more a shoulder that provides the necessary strength for the screw head. This titanium base is fused to the CAP FZ crown which has a screw access hole. This crown has all the same translucency, detailed anatomy, and intrinsic color from our MultiShading process as our conventional CAP FZ restorations. In addition, at an1100 MPa flexural strength, we are offering a 5 year guarantee against breakage. Being able to eliminate a custom or stock abutments from the process eliminates a significant amount of cost.
ORIGIN® Desktop Series
B&D Dental Technologies · Equipment
The ORIGIN® Desktop Series systems deliver. Competitively priced and entirely capable, the ORIGIN systems provide streamlined CAD/CAM production, giving your laboratory the absolute advantage. ORIGIN...See more CAD/CAM offers the ultimate solution for material selection and "dead-on" accuracy milled from one compact and cost effective system. Precise milling of Zirconia, Wax, Castable PMMA. Upgradable for Full Contour Ceramic and ORIGIN Custom Implant Abutment (Hybrid and Titanium) milling. ORIGIN runs an open architecture, digital operating system, with secured integration for all dental prosthetic operations. Expand the limits of CAD/CAM manufacturing and extend your range of quality product offerings with ORIGIN.
Aurident's Delta: Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia
Aurident Inc. · Digital Fabrication
Aurident now offers Delta, an economical yttria-stabilized zirconia for CAD/CAM processing of full-contour crowns, copings, implants, veneers and bridges. Delta zirconia is manufactured using isostatically...See more pressed nano-particles in an exacting proprietary process to produce consistent, equiaxial products. Uniform predetermined shrinkage in all three dimensions is thus assured. Delta is available in a 1,200MPa (highly translucent) and 1,400MPa high-strength, either unshaded or pre-shaded in various thicknesses. Sintered Delta zirconia is compatible with all zirconia porcelains.
Zirconia Finishing System
Developed in conjunction with noted ceramist Lee Culp, this Zirconia Finishing System from BRASSELER USA contains the ideal range and type of instrumentation to efficiently work with modern ceramic materials....See more The system includes a coarse-grit diamond disc that efficiently cuts "green" zirconia when removing the framework from the milling block, a Dialite® wheel that aggressively reduces zirconia while remaining gentle to ceramics and DuraCut™ diamonds designed with zirconia in mind.
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Crystal Zirconia
Crystal Zirconia · Digital Fabrication
FDA-registered and isostatically pressed, Crystal Zirconia is offered in three formulations, including new Crystal Diamond, a translucent zirconia designed for full-contour restorations. With a strength...See more of up to 1500 MPa and a lifetime warranty, the zirconia blocks are manufactured in the USA and compatible with Dentsply Cercon, Wieland, KaVo, Sirona inLab, Digital Dental, Amann Girrbach, ZirkonZahn and other systems. The blocks cost 30 to 40% less than OEM zirconia, according to CRYSTAL ZIRCONIA, and have IdentCERAM Certificates, FDA registration and the CE Mark. Dentist and patient brochures are available. Visit the website for technical specifications.
Dental Zirconia
Dental Laboratory Milling Supplies · Digital Fabrication
DentalZirconia.com offers a full line of zirconia for all milling machines, including Dentsply Cercon, Wieland Zeno, KaVo Everest, Sirona inLab MCXL, Digital Dental, Amann Girrbach Ceramill, ZirkonZahn...See more and more. It carries a variety of brands in both high strength and high translucency formulas, and both isostatically and uniaxel pressed blocks and discs. The company offers a low price guarantee (beating competitors' prices by 5%) and additional savings of up to 70% on the website's Clearance section. Products are always in stock; same-day shipment on most items.
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BK Zirconia Blocks
BK-Medent · Digital Fabrication
BK-MEDENT produces various sizes of zirconia blocks for milling: BK Blank 20 (20mm wide x 14mm long x 14mm high), BK Blank 40 (40mm wide x 19mm long x 16mm high), BK Blank 65 (65mm wide x 25mm long x 18mm...See more high), and BK Blank 90 (95π circumference x 14mm high). The blocks follow FDA, CE Mark, and Korean GMP requirements.rn
Prettau-Zirconia
Zirkonzahn USA, Inc. · Digital Fabrication
ZIRKONZAHN produces high quality zirconia with various grades of translucency. The new Prettau-Zirconia allows you to fabricate strong full zirconia bridges with natural esthetics. Zirkonzahn's 5-Tec CAD/CAM...See more system has multiple applications, including crowns and bridges, occlusally screw-retained bridges, abutments, bars, attachments, inlays/onlays, bite splints and veneers. The company manufactures a wide range of products for technicians and has customers in over 80 countries.
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TiZian CAD/CAM System
Schütz Dental Group, Inc. · Digital Fabrication
SCHÜTZ DENTAL GROUP's TiZian open-architecture CAD/CAM system is an economical and easy-to-use system for producing precise copings, implant-supported bars, telescopic work and bridges up to 16 units out...See more of zirconium, castable acrylic, wax, occlusal zirconia or provisional material. The isostatically pressed zirconia blocks come in 16- and 20-mm depths in six different sizes. The nesting software allows you to place up to 30 units on one block to maximize productivity and reduce costs. You can also mill on unused portions of zirconium and acrylic blocks for increased savings. There are no bar codes, dongle fees or maintenance/software contracts required. The TiZian software includes a virtual articulator that works with all systems and an abutment designer with a library of 11 implant systems to which you can add.
In-House Zirconia Abutments
Sirona Dental Systems LLC · Digital Fabrication
Fabricate in-house customized ceramic abutments with SIRONA inLab using the inLab 3D software that allows you to design the restoration and mesostructure in one step. Sirona's integrated implant database...See more matches the correct TiBase™ set and inCoris™ ZI meso block with the systems your clients use the most. inCoris ZI meso blocks are available in two shades and two sizes, and each Sirona TiBase kit includes abutment screw, titanium base and scan body designed to fit most implant systems. The final fabrication of the full-contour or cut-back restoration can be milled from feldspathic, glass ceramic or lithium disilicate materials.
BruxZir® Solid Zirconia
Glidewell Laboratories · Subcontracting Services
BruxZir® Solid Zirconia is a monolithic zirconia restoration with no porcelain overlay. More brawn than beauty, you'll be impressed by the esthetics of BruxZir when prescribed instead of metal occlusal...See more PFMs and cast gold restorations. Thanks to its virtually chip-proof durability, BruxZir is the ideal restoration for bruxers, implant restorations and areas with limited occlusal space. Designed and milled using CAD/CAM, BruxZir is sintered for 6.5 hours at 1,530 degrees Celsius. The final BruxZir restoration emerges nearly "bulletproof" and is glazed to a smooth surface. BruxZir Solid Zirconia restorations are backed by Glidewell Dental Lab's seven-year free replacement warranty.
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Ti Bases For Zirconia Abutments
Attachments International · Consumables
ATTACHMENTS INTERNATIONAL provides a full line of quality implant components for all major implant companies. This year's newest products include: a line of BIC™ components compatible with Certain...See more implants, and Titanium Bases for Zirconia Abutments compatible with both internal tri-channel and internal hex implants. The bases come with a plastic waxing sleeve for contouring with wax or composite before scanning. A wide variety of attachments is also available.
Zimmer® Contour Zirconia Abutments
Zimmer Dental, Inc. · Consumables
Zimmer Contour Zirconia Abutments offer a beautiful, off-the-shelf fit. Engineered to work with ZIMMER DENTAL's Tapered Screw-Vent® Implant System, these zirconia abutments deliver a combination of...See more strength, esthetics and simplicity. The pre-defined offset margin is lower on the buccal aspect to minimize preparation time.
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