Lava™ Plus
High Translucency Zirconia
You know they’ll love the
color match when
an A2 is an A2.
Meet requests for “the best” with
Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia
Since Lava™ zirconia was introduced in 2001, millions of cases have been produced worldwide. It’s acknowledged as
a high-quality brand that built the market for zirconia restorations through the Lava™ Milling Center network. With a
98mm disc format, our complete system for high translucency zirconia restorations is available for open-source milling.
Dental labs can access:
• Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia Discs (98
mm) in three thicknesses (14 mm, 18 mm and 25 mm)
in two popular formats (with and without a step)
• Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia Blocks for
Lava™ Milling Systems
• 3M’s patented shading system with dyeing liquids
available in 18 shades
• Three enamel liquids to create a naturally flowing
esthetic transition from dentin to incisal edge
• Special effect shades and color markers
Indications:
Restorations can be monolithic full contour or with a partial or full veneer.
Crowns (anterior and posterior)
Splinted crowns
3–4 unit bridges
Long-span and curved bridges*
Full-arch bridges
Cantilever bridges*
3-unit inlay and onlay bridges*
Anterior adhesive bridges
(Maryland bridges)*
Primary crowns
Crowns on implant abutments*
Bridges on implants*
Zirconia build-up for
2-piece abutments
*For more details and contraindications, please see the Lava Plus zirconia Instructions for Use.
True colors—an A2 is an A2
3M’s patented shading technology delivers consistent color. Developed specifically for a
consistent color match to VITA® classical shades, Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia Dyeing
Liquids are available in each VITA classical shade plus two bleach shades. For popular VITA
System 3D-Master® shades, 3M provides a conversion chart to ensure you can deliver an accurate
match for your dentist. Your high-strength, translucent restorations will have a warm and natural
esthetic appearance because the shading liquid is completely absorbed and provides coloration
throughout the restoration.
Initial situation: Preparation of a lower molar with
root treatment.
Final situation: A2 custom shaded with Lava™ Plus
Enamel Dyeing Liquid EL in the incisal area.
Consistent
VITA Classic Color Match
W1
W3
A1
A2
A3
A3.5
B1
B2
B3
B4
C1
C2
C3
C4
D2
D3
D4
A4
Choose the shading option that’s
best for you
Two shading options—dip and natural gradient—give you flexibility and total control of
the esthetics. A final glaze application may not only help to achieve a better match of the
selected shade, but will also provide a very natural esthetic appearance.
Fast & Easy:
Monochrome
Dip Shading.
Frameworks, cutbacks and full
contour all-zirconia can be produced
with monochrome dip shading, a
fast and easy 2-minute process in
which the shading liquid is evenly and
completely absorbed throughout the
zirconia. This means “no white spots”
will appear if adjustments are made.
Individual & Artisan:
Natural Gradient
Shading.
Dentists receive highly customized esthetics
in an all-zirconia restoration when you
use the natural gradient technique. The
comprehensive Lava™ Plus High Translucency
Zirconia Shading System—including Lava™
Plus High Translucency Zirconia Dyeing
Liquids, Enamel Liquids and Effect Shades—
allows for a high level of individualization and
a natural look.
You can find more
shading technique
details in the Lava™
Plus High Translucency
Zirconia Step-by-Step
Shading Guide—or in
the Lava™ Plus
Shading Technique
video on YouTube.
What makes Lava™ Plus
High Translucency Zirconia unique?
An Excellent Color Match
Reduces Remakes
3M has made shade matching
simple. The new enamel liquids can
now be used to achieve a natural
transition from the dentin to the
incisal edge.
A Plus In Translucency
In order for Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia to obtain its desired optical
properties, it must allow light to pass with a minimal amount of scattering. Scattering
occurs when light strikes structural defects inside the sintered zirconia. The highquality processing of Lava Plus zirconia minimizes these effects. Lava Plus zirconia
will sinter to a highly dense polycrystalline microstructure with an average grain size
of below 0.5 µm.
A. Lava™ Plus High Translucency
Zirconia
B. Generic zirconia—highlighted
impurity and pore
SEM images, 10K magnification. Source: 3M internal data.
Strength That Exceeds
Weaker materials overcome their strength
limitation by increasing the minimum wall
thickness required for the finished restoration.
Lava Plus zirconia’s high strength and toughness
have translated into demonstrated clinical
performance on multi-unit posterior bridges
with a minimum wall thickness of 0.5 mm.
1200
Fracture strength [MPa]
This same microstructure that gives Lava Plus
zirconia its high translucency is also responsible
for its high strength and fracture toughness,
which is a measurement of a material’s ability to
resist fracture.
C. Branded competitive
zirconia—highlighted
segregated Alumina grains
1000
800
restorations greater
than 4 units
600
3-unit restorations
including posterior
region
400
anterior 3-unit
restorations
200
0
Leucit
reinforced
glass
ceramic
Resin
nano
ceramic
Lithium
disilicate glass
ceramic
Anterior
Zirconia
Lava™ Plus Lava™ Plus Peer Zirconia Peer Zirconia
High
High
preshaded
preshaded
Translucency Translucency
light
intense
Zirconia
Zirconia
A3 shaded
Fracture strength data of various dental materials. Recommendations
acc. ISO 6872:2008 regarding strength and indication range.
Source: 3M internal data
Excellent Aging Stability
Lava™ Plus High Translucency Zirconia’s unique
microstructure and chemical formulation also
resists degradation that can be observed in
zirconia ceramics when they are exposed to
elevated temperatures in humid environments.
The higher the aging stability, the lower the
monoclinic phase content at the surface of a
zirconia after hydrothermal treatment.
Monoclinic surface phase content [%]
It’s simple to create tooth-preserving
preparations, thanks to high strength.
60
50
40
Maximum limit
acc. ISO 13356:2008
30
20
10
0
Lava™ Plus
High Translucency
Zirconia
Glidewell
BruxZir®
HT2.0
Sagemax
NexxZR® T
X-ray diffraction crystal phase analysis of dental zirconia after
hydrothermal treatment. Source: 3M internal data
Lava™ Plus Speed
Sintering Cycle*
Lava™ Plus Standard
Sintering Cycle*
High Throughput Speed Sintering Cycle
The same unique blend of raw materials that
contributes to the Lava Plus zirconia’s excellent
translucency, strength and aging stability
enables the use of a Speed sintering cycle. This
high-productivity sintering cycle allows for an
“in furnace” time of less than 140 minutes,
without compromising strength or translucency.
This allows for up to three batches a day.
4
Hours
The speed sintering cycle produces the same crystalline structure
as the standard sintering cycle, which means labs can produce
high-quality restorations in three batches a day.
Source: Impact of Fast Sintering on Materials Properties
of Translucent Zirconia, Herrmann et al. J Dent Res 93
(Spec Iss A): 1452, 2014
* Includes two-hour dyeing liquid dry time. Actual times may vary depending on furnace
load and design
0.6
The average grain size of less than 0.5 µm
and the material properties found in Lava Plus
zirconia yields a surface that is also kind to
opposing dentition. Long-term enamel wear
behavior of Lava Plus zirconia material after
accelerated aging was investigated at the
University of Alabama at Birmingham.
0.5
Enamel Wear (mm3)
Low Antagonist Wear
The study revealed that aged zirconia had
similar roughness and produced similar wear
of opposing enamel as polished zirconia. Both
zirconia groups produced less enamel wear than
the veneering porcelain or natural enamel.
7
Hours
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
a
a
Aged Lava™ Zirconia
Polished Lava™ Zirconia
c
b
0
Veneering Porcelain
Enamel
Volumetric human enamel wear to Lava™ Zirconia (polished or polished
and aged by autoclaving for 5 hours at 135 ºC, 2 bars), human incisor
enamel and a veneering porcelain (Modified Alabama wear testing
device). Burgess et al, Dent Res 91 (Spec Iss A): 418, 2012.
Ordering Information
Lava™ Plus High Translucency
Zirconia Discs
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