How to Bring Monolithic Restorations to Life

You can add a touch of individuality and natural beauty to monolithic zirconia restorations by manually creating surface texture and applying external shade effects. This process involves less work than the conventional layering technique and achieves comparable esthetic results. Success requires the technician’s skilled craftsmanship and creativity as well as a coordinated range of materials such as Ivoclar’s high-strength IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime and the IPS Ivocolor stains and glazes.

IPS e.max ZirCAD Prime is a zirconium oxide material suitable for bridges up to 14 units and produced with a Gradient Technology (GT) that allows two powders (3Y-TZP and 5Y-TZP) that normally sinter at different intervals to be combined into one material that sinters uniformly. The cold isostatic process optimizes the translucent properties and also allows the material to be sintered at shorter intervals, improving efficiency and esthetics. The innovative filling technology...