Glazing Vita Enamic
Because the new upcoming Vita Enamic material is a hybrid material of sorts, a combination of a ceramic matrix and a polymer network intertwined, the ability to glaze the restoration in the oven is not possible. I mean, you can place the restoration in the oven but because the polymer matrix will melt away, the desire to esthetically enhance your restoration via that route is obviously not possible.
Ideally, the material is simply polished by the Enamic Polishing Kit, you can watch a video from our Digital Learning Library on polishing enamic here. However, Vita in the coming weeks will be releasing a new technique with an external glaze. The photo that you see below is a "glazed" Enamic restoration. This was not placed in the oven. The restoration was created by Mark Baker, CDT who works for Vita. The "glaze" is applied by etching the external surface with HF acid for 60 seconds, applying silane and then painting on the glaze, stain and light curing. So essentially what you see below is a paint on glaze with no oven time. The obvious question is - how will this hold up? Will the glaze eventually wear off because its not fired? That remains to be seen. But if this technique works, we have the potential for a nice adjunct to esthetically enhance our restorations without using a glazing oven.
Lol- good point. It was a demo model that one of the vita reps had. The glaze will be available in a few months.
Hi Sam, just finished an Enamic Crown with OMNI - it went, well and I polished it with the silicone system fro VITA - however I´ll get the DIASHINE system this upcoming week, and on the video you made it seems even better.
The big advantage seems to be to skip the glaze and polish instead (rapid restoration) and it´s almost like the "old" days, where the technicians re-invented the PFM to make them less abrasive and easier to correct in the mouth with No glaze, but in a period polished them instead.
Does VITA even reccomend the glaze??
Very little info on the glaze right now. We need to wait and see what they recommend once they have it more readily available. For now I saw this one sample and yes it seems impressive but will have to wait and see how the "glaze" holds up.
