SERVICES
BruxZir® Full-Strength
As the most prescribed brand of full-contour zirconia, BruxZir® Full-Strength Solid Zirconia represents a momentous shift in clinicians’ restorative preferences. While it began in 2009 as “More Brawn Than Beauty,” BruxZir zirconia has been continuously improved to exhibit better translucency and color similar to natural dentition. It is no longer simply a more esthetic alternative to posterior metal occlusal PFMs or cast gold restorations. Now, BruxZir Full-Strength restorations offer complete color penetration and superior shade matching technology allowing practitioners to deploy this versatile material in even the most esthetically demanding cases.
Porcelain-Fused-to-Metal
Porcelain-fused-to-metal restorations have been a mainstay of prosthetic dentistry for more than half a century. The flexibility in design from no exposed metal to metal occlusals allow the PFM to be utilized in many clinical situations including parafunction and limited space. PFMs work well as single units and bridges designed by your preferences for each case.
Indications
Crowns
3 unit bridges
Contraindications
Cantilever pontics
Advantages
Excellent aesthetics
Positive gingival response
Eliminates black or gray margins
Fast turnaround time
Health
The advanced gold coping material is proven to reduce the accumulation of harmful bacteria at the gum line by 90% compared to natural tooth structure.
Strength
The infusion of platinum and palladium into gold produces an extremely dense and strong coping.
Extreme bond strength between the porcelain and Captek gold reduces fractures.
Aesthetics
Captek gold does not oxidize, eliminating the black or gray margins of traditional PFMs.
The warm gold color of Captek’s understructure used to produce the gold copings provides natural light dispersion.
High Noble
Continental Dental Labs is proud to feature porcelain fused to high noble restorations with convenient flat-rate pricing. These restorations provide beauty and strength in a single restoration. Preferred over traditional PFMs, the luster of gold and the biocompatibility attracts most doctors and patients alike.
Specifications:
High fusing porcelain
Rich gold color eliminates gray margins
Ideal for long-span bridges
Strong & durable for long-lasting restorations
More aesthetic than traditional PFMs
Indications: Single unit crowns and bridges
Cementation: Traditional cementation
Non-Precious
Our dental laboratory specializes in crafting traditional porcelain fused to metal restorations (PFMs). They are preferred 2:1 over any other PFM and are the most prescribed restorations in our dental lab. Noted for it’s strength and function, most dentists, dental labs, and even patients prefer its reliability, performance, and value.
Specifications:
Proven long-term reliability
Superior strength for long-span bridgework
Can be gold plated for additional aesthetic value
Nickel-chrome based alloy
Indications: Single unit crowns and bridges, or custom fit to partials
Cementation: Traditional cementation
Full Cast Crown
The Full Cast Crown has a proven track record spanning more than 100 years. These restorations continue to hold up through the trials of normal function and parafunction. Full Cast Crowns are a conservative restorative option and a great choice when longevity and biocompatibility are principle concerns.
At LA Smile Dental Lab all our work is done with strict protocol that guarantees you proper fit and good occlusal contacts while we focus on artistic techniques and anatomical characteristics that make them true work of art in our dental lab. You have a wide range of alloy choices, and we work along with you to offer the ideal blend between cost, strength and esthetic.
Full Cast Gold Restoration
There are circunstances where only gold can address certain structural demands.
Gold Benefits
Ideal use for opposing teeth where the occlusal space is limited.
Gentle to the opposing tooth.
Superior Strength.
Superior Bio compatibility.
Plaque resistance.
Prep of you choice.
Long lasting durability.
Excellent margin fit.
Look the quality of our Full Cast Gold:
Indicated
Posterior Crowns.
Bridges.
Inlays.
Onlays.
As you know even the heaviest bitting and chewing forces full gold crowns are unbreakable, considering the large variety of dental restorations gold crowns have the greatest potential for a long lasting term remember that gold alloy have about the same wear of the tooth enamel that means that a gold restoration will not create an excessive wear of the opposing teeth.
Cast Restorations
l-Cast Restorations
THE MOST CLINICALLY VALIDATED BRAND OF FULL-CONTOUR ZIRCONIA
We know that clinicians demand only proven materials for their patients and we at Crown World are proud to offer BruxZir zirconia as the most clinically validated brand of dental zirconia and the only monolithic zirconia with 8 years of study. A recent report* from the independent, non-profit Gordon J. Christensen Clinicians Report® has found that BruxZir zirconia demonstrated excellent clinical performance:
100 percent survival
0 terminal fractures
Minimal wear on opposing dentition
Average flexural strength of 1,150 MPa
Whether you’re providing a crown, inlay, onlay or bridge, our experienced team of dental technicians look forward to helping you with your next BruxZir case.
Full Metal Crown Restorations
Full Cast Restorations
Yellow Gold crown and SLM (Selective Laser Melting) crown (silver colored) for non-precious and semi-precious. A full cast restoration is composed of a gold alloy that when properly cared for, can last a lifetime. In fact, full cast restorations are not only a strong and long-lasting choice, but they are also highly biocompatible with the gums. Dental patients have been shown to accumulate far less plaque and harmful bacteria along the gum lines of full cast gold restorations than along the gum lines of natural teeth.
Pros: Strong and long-lasting, biocompatible with the gums, less likely accumulate plaque. Kind to the opposing natural dentition.
Cons: Little more costly due to alloy (oz) use
Usage: Single and multi unit bridges
Porcelain Fused to Metal (PFM) Restorations
Porcelain Fused to Metal (PFM)
PFMs are composed of a metal alloy that fits directly on the tooth, and a porcelain layer to provide the tooth shape and color. We are now using SLM (Selective Laser Melting) alloys for semi-precious (66% CoCr, 25% Pd, 9% Mo) and non-precious (88.6% CoCr) PFMs. We still use the traditional wax and cast technique for High Noble alloys to create the SLM metal frame, and our CAD technicians design a full crown and produce an STL file. Our SLM machine prints an alloy accordingly and SLM copings are adjusted and fitted on the model. Finally, our ceramists layer Feldspathic porcelain on the SLM coping.
Pros: The metal alloy provides a more accurate fit and better strength than that for an all ceramic crown.
Cons: The chance of porcelain breakage is very little, but could result in inconvenient repairs or replacements.
Usage: Single and multi unit bridges
All Ceramic
Ceramic and Metal Free Solutions
Williams Dental Laboratory has been fortunate enough to have been involved with these systems from their inception into the dental industry. For years companies have consulted with us for feedback and suggestions aimed to increase the effectiveness of these materials for strength and esthetics.
CAD/CAM technology has been successfully adapted to the dental industry with 3D imaging and Virtual Visualization.
To summarize, there are three new types of milled products that have been developed. Leucite reinforced porcelain such as Empress Esthetic (yes we still proudly fabricate Empress Veneers, prepless veneers and crowns), requires bonding and can be used full contour or cut back and layered with translucent porcelains. We prefer the cutback method. Secondly, the stronger but still translucent lithium disilicate porcelain, such as e.max CAD, and e.max press. And finally, the highly tested Zirconia oxide stabilized with yttria such as e.max ZirCad, LAVA, Bruxzir, and Zirlux, colored monolithic solid zirconium. Milled e.max is very interesting because of the greater strength when compared to a waxed and pressed restoration.
The material choice that falls between, or has the hardness of Zirconia and translucency of leucite (Empress Esthetic) is the IPS e.max CAD.
Tough but translucent, e.max CAD can be full contour or layered with porcelain and can be either bonded or cemented. Zirconia (layered with e.max) is the answer to a high strength substitute for metal.
With all of these new materials allowing us in the dentistry profession to provide amazing results, comes a confusion that is mind boggling with too many choices.
Let's partner with digital dentistry for reduced chair time, flawless fits, and cost-efficiency
Why Go Digital?
Staying current with technical and human skills is of paramount importance in the ever-growing dental industry. With digital scanners, doctors can produce full jaw impressions in no time at all and send paper-free data directly to us through our cloud-based dental software. This allows instant and environment-friendly communication and record-keeping so that any issues can be addressed immediately by any one of our CAD/CAM experts, and your case's time in our lab can be reduced by 3 days.
Working without traditional materials eliminates numerous steps and thus errors such as air bubbles and improper tray setting in uncomfortable patients. The unparalleled accuracy and convenience of digital impressions reduce the possibility of remakes to less than .5%, and cut chair time for impression-taking and seating appointments back by 75%.
