Numerous dental materials have come and gone over the past years. Many of their manufacturers have laid claims to a pure nonmetal aesthetic material with superior enamel-like strength. That’s like saying your dental practice provides the best service and the highest quality at the lowest price. The incongruence in that statement says it all.

I’d like to introduce to you Emax from Ivoclar. The material is lithium disilicate. The newest version of Emax is a high translucency (HT) ingot that provides fantastic aesthetic color depth with high mechanical strength. IPS Emax is an innovative all-ceramic system that covers the spectrum for indications throughout the entire mouth. In a recent study at New York University School of Dental Medicine, the flexural strength of 440mpa exceeds that of porcelain-to-zirconia restorations. The aesthetics of lithium disilicate has been improved with the high translucency ingot, which yields impeccable results along with incredible toughness to fracture.