edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCKs

Edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCKs are manufactured by combining three dental technologies in a single material, leveraging the advantages of each system to create a highly aesthetic material with high strength (560 MPa) and flexibility (20 GPa). The material consists of a blend of pure glass ceramic, particle-filled ceramic and carbon technology in one block. This combination provides excellent aesthetics and compressive strength while minimising brittleness and hardness. A small amount of carbon is added to enhance elasticity, giving the material biomimetic properties. Its flexibility corresponds to dentine, and its hardness to enamel, while zinc oxide nanoparticles provide antibacterial properties.

This material belongs to a new generation of ceramics—biomechanical glass-ceramics. It is produced using a patented laser process in which the glass crystals are sintered and vitrified. The finished bio-ceramic edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCK is characterised by a homogeneous glass-ceramic phase embedded in a carbon matrix. As an inorganic, crystalline bioceramic glass phase, the material offers biomimetic mechanics, a bioaesthetic appearance and biocompatibility. It is also completely free of BIS-GMA, BIS-EMA and UDMA.

Innovation inspired by nature

The laser-sintered and vitrified bio-ceramic edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCKs possess aesthetic properties similar to feldspathic glass-ceramics but are less brittle and hard than pure ceramics and zirconia. Their strength is comparable to ceramic, yet they retain the flexibility of hybrid materials.

Edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCKs are manufactured by combining three dental technologies in a single material, leveraging the advantages of each system to create a highly aesthetic material with high strength (560 MPa) and flexibility (20 GPa). The material consists of a blend of pure glass ceramic, particle-filled ceramic and carbon technology in one block. This combination provides excellent aesthetics and compressive strength while minimising brittleness and hardness. A small amount of carbon is added to enhance elasticity, giving the material biomimetic properties. Its flexibility corresponds to dentine, and its hardness to enamel, while zinc oxide nanoparticles provide antibacterial properties.

This material belongs to a new generation of ceramics—biomechanical glass-ceramics. It is produced using a patented laser process in which the glass crystals are sintered and vitrified. The finished bio-ceramic edelweiss CAD/CAM BLOCK is characterised by a homogeneous glass-ceramic phase embedded in a carbon matrix. As an inorganic, crystalline bioceramic glass phase, the material offers biomimetic mechanics, a bioaesthetic appearance and biocompatibility. It is also completely free of BIS-GMA, BIS-EMA and UDMA.

Features and benefits

• Aesthetically pleasing, lifelike appearance with high strength (560 MPa compressive strength)
• Biomimetic (20 GPa modulus of flexibility) and bisphenol A-free
• Laser-sintered and vitrified—no additional firing required; quick polishing with a goat hair brush; easy cementation
• Cost-effective: faster processing, up to three times longer service life for CAD/CAM milling drills, and energy efficiency

More information can be found at www.edelweissdentistry.com.

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