IPS Empress® Esthetic raises the bar for pressable ceramics, delivering the fit of a pressed restoration with the esthetics of a layered restoration. Ideal for Veneers, IPS Empress Esthetic provides our technicians with the material to create life-like veneers with the characterization and translucency you and your patients expect. These true-to-nature esthetics are not limited to veneers, IPS Empress Esthetic can also be prescribed for crowns, inlays and onlays.
Advantages / Benefits
- True-to-nature esthetics
- Homogeneous leucite crystal distribution allowing for:
- Higher flexural strength
- Improved optical qualities
- Optimized colour and clarity
Indications
- Veneers
- Inlays / Onlays
- Full-coverage single crowns
Cementation
- IPS Empress Esthetic restorations have to be adhesively cemented. We recommend Variolink II (in combination with the dentin adhesives Syntac or Excite DSC) or Multilink for the cementation of inlays, partial crowns and full crowns.
For IPS Empress Esthetic Veneers, only Variolink II is suitable.
Shade Selection
- The shade is determined on the cleaned, unprepared, or adjacent tooth with the help of the Chromascope or Vita (classic) shade guides. To maximize esthetics with Empress it is important to also select the prepped tooth colour.
Preparation Guidelines
- It is important to properly design the margin with a circular shoulder or chamfer preparation and rounded inner aspects. Transitions with sharp angles and feather edge margins should be avoided.
View the clinical guide for more information