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3M LAVA TM

Full-contour - or "one-piece* - all-ceramic crown and bridge restorations are gaining popularity fast. This trend is driven by the patient's and dentists demand for metal-free, esthetic restorations that are also durable and affordable.
What fuels the trend are innovations in esthetic all-ceramic materials that can be manufactured efficiently via CAD/CAM processes.
The two leading material classes employed for full-contour all-ceramic restorations are glass ceramics and zirconia. While glass ceramics used to set the esthetic benchmark, zirconia materials offer the highest strength.
The basic idea behind 3M'" Lava" Esthetic Fluorescent Full-Contour Zirconia was to develop a solution with excellent esthetics that offers a significant strength advantage versus glass ceramics and allows for a highly efficient CAD/CAM manufacturing. 3M - a leading company in ceramic solutions - is well equipped with the technologies it takes to make this vision a reality.
3M invented liquid shading of zirconia and pioneered the dental zirconia market with the introduction of 3M° Lava" Frame Zirconia in 2001. The next generation product 3M° Lava" Plus High Translucency Zirconia was the first zirconia system designed for matching all 16 VITA classical shades. With the introduction of Lava Esthetic Zirconia 3M sets another milestone in dental zirconia innovations by presenting the first pre-shaded zirconia with built-in fluorescence.
Now labs have a all-ceramic CAD/CAM solution at hand that offers high productivity processing and delivers all it takes for high full-contour esthetics: translucency, shade match and built-in fluorescence.