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Blocking Out Endo Teeth in the Anterior

Thomas Monahan Mike Skramstad
14 years ago
Sometimes you have some very dark stumps that you cannot block out with even e.max LT. Here is a great solution for you inlab users so you don't have to send these cases out. You can block the dark teeth out with an e.max MO coping and use a more beautiful ceramic with more translucency over the top. Best of both worlds. This is just a sample case on #7. You want to avoid using multilayer mode in this instance because it produces too big of a collar and a sprue on the margin. The best practice for this is to do the following: Step 1: #7, framework mode. Draw the margins short of the actual margin. Mill this out of e.max MO, use finishers to thin out margin and remove undercuts if needed. Step 2: Place frame on model and reimage. Do a crown drawing margin on actual margins and mill the crown. I would increase the margin thickness parameter to protect the margin and manually polish this back later. In this instance I milled Triluxe 1M2 block Step 3: Crystallize the frame and stain and glaze the crown, bond them together and you are done. Great way to help block those endo teeth in the anterior.
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