Veneers are a minimally-invasive treatment method to remove common cosmetic issues such as chipping, spacing, or stained teeth.
By means of minimal or sometimes no reduction, the facial, incisal and proximal surfaces receive an adhesively bonded esthetic veneer that can alter color, anatomy, and/or function. Several types of all ceramic systems have been developed with special attention to glass-matrix ceramics due to their high translucency, and fabrication methods varying from hand-made to CAD/CAM
E.max veneer:
Milled or pressed Lithium Disilicate can be used as a monolithic material to fabricate from porcelain veneers to fixed dental prostheses in the posterior region, providing good mechanical properties, biocompatibility, high flexural strength and chemical stability
Validations
A systematic review on the survival and complication rates of laminate veneers has shown a slightly higher estimated survival for glass-ceramics (94%) compared to feldspathic porcelain (87%) although differences were not statistically different (Romanini-Junior et al., Monolithic CAD/CAM laminate veneers: Reliability and failure modes, Dental materials, 2020)
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Thickness Requirements
