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Maryland bridge with Tetric Cad

Thomas Monahan Dan Butterman
6 years ago

One of my favorite CEREC uses is making a Maryland bridge as a temporary on the day of implant surgery.  I like to use a hybrid composite material for this because it mills quickly, polishes well and is easy to bond in and cut out after healing, but it's not a material option in administration if a bridge is selected.  My Ivoclar rep gave me some Tetric Cad to try and one of the nice things about this material is that it's dimensionally the same as an emax 14 block.  You can set up a bridge in administration, select emax, but place a Tetric Cad block in and it will mill perfectly.  It mills super fast and looks nice as a temp.

22 year old with congenitally missing lateral.  I needed to place a 3.0 Xive implant, so Atlantis will make the abutment.

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