Chairside - Glidewell Dental Labs
Chairside - Glidewell Dental Labs
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Dr. DiTolla’s<br />
CLINICAL TIPS<br />
PRODUCT ....... CeraGlaze ® Ultimate Porcelain<br />
Polishing Set (RA/Latch) – LS-506<br />
CATEGORY ...... Porcelain Polishing Logic Set<br />
SOURCE .......... Axis <strong>Dental</strong><br />
Coppell, TX<br />
800-355-5063<br />
www.axisdental.com<br />
Nobody knows more about how to effectively smooth<br />
porcelain than your dental laboratory. Oddly enough,<br />
dentists don’t seem to consult with their laboratories<br />
when it comes to polishing ceramic materials. Most<br />
dentists think if they send a restoration back to their<br />
lab for “reglazing” that the lab will paint on the glaze<br />
and run it back up in the oven. The truth is there’s too<br />
great a risk that the restoration will fracture when<br />
this happens, and the lab is able to achieve nearly<br />
identical results with polishing wheels. We use the<br />
CeraGlaze Ultimate Porcelain Polishing Set here at<br />
the lab, and the key is that we use it in a high torque<br />
electric handpiece. Polishing ceramics outside of the<br />
mouth is an easy enough task, but it becomes more<br />
difficult when it needs to be done post-cementation.<br />
With my KaVo ELECTROtorque handpiece and the different<br />
shapes in the CeraGlaze Logic Set, there is no<br />
area in the mouth that I can’t polish to a high glazelike<br />
shine.<br />
Dr. DiTolla’s Clinical Tips11