Advantages
We introduced the Aesthetic Layered Zirconia. This material is highly translucent, in fact, and it fits into a category called zirconium dioxide HT, or high translucent zirconium. There are several different brands on the market. We extensively test these materials, and under blind studies, we picked the material that we thought was the most aesthetic, in fact, all the evaluators picked the same material, and that is the material that we use for our Aesthetic Layered Zirconia. Now, the advantage of Full-Contour Zirconia is that it is not opaque, in fact, it is translucent, and it rivals most of the alternative systems out there, including e.max, which is one of our most popular.
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Clinical Performance of Zirconia Crowns
With the popularity of monolithic zirconia, clinicians often ask about their clinical performance. They can look aesthetic because of their high translucency, like the Aesthetic Layered Zirconia. They can look great, they fit unbelievably well, despite being very conservative. The occlusal can be as thin as .5 millimeters, in a gold prep, overall less than a millimeter, so very conservative. The clinical performance of our traditional Full-Contour Zirconia, which we have now had available almost 10 years, had our very lowest remake and failure of any of the materials we offer. That includes gold, PFM’s, e.max and empress. What we found with our Aesthetic Layered Zirconia, which we have had almost a year now, is that it has a very similar clinical performance to that which we see in our traditional Full-Contour Zirconia.
