Life™ Premium Zirconia

High Translucency
High Strength of 1400 Mpa
Thanks to a unique shading system, it enables to create highly esthetic restorations. Twenty natural, warm and vivid tooth colors, 20 stain and 7 effect shades and a fluorescent effect shade are available for unlimited individualization
Years of clinical experience and millions of successful cases worldwide
Limited Lifetime warranty^*
The patented Customized Hand Layered shading system enables highly esthetic all-zirconia or traditionally layered restorations.
Excellent color match to the VITA® Classical Shade Guide and VITA SYSTEM 3D-MASTER® Shades.
High strength allows tooth-preserving ≤0.5mm minimum wall thickness - requiring 3X less occlusal preparation than lithium disilicate glass ceramic because of it's 3X greater strength².

Premium zirconia is the beautifully durable material of choice.

Long term Aesthetics
Excellent Fit
Customised Hand-Shaded Zirconia
Upto 8 Unit Bridges with more than 4 Politics

Life™ Premium Highly Translucent All-Zirconia Restorations

Single crowns
8 Unit bridges with upto 4 pontics in the anterior region
Inlay and Onlay bridges
Primary telescopes
Custom Zirconia abutments for a wide variety of implant systems

Life™ Premium Highly Translucent Frameworks

Single crowns
All bridges up to 48mm
Splinted crowns
Crowns on Implants
Cantilever bridges (excluded for patients with bruxism)
Inlay and onlay bridges⁴ (excluded for patients with bruxism)
Anterior adhesive bridges⁴ (excluded for patients with bruxism)

Life™ Premium primary crowns / telescopes Life™ Premium build-ups for two-piece abutments

Splinted crowns up to 4 units
5+ unit bridges (up to 48 mm) with a maximum of two pontics next to one another in the posterior area and a maximum of four pontics next to one another in the anterior area.
With a maximum of 1 pontics at the position of a premolar or incisor.
Tests have proven: Life™ Zirconia shows a sufficient strength for this indication. However, this type of indication overall can have a higher failure risk due to de-cementation and secondary caries regardless of manufacturer. Please refer to national and regional dental associations for more information.

The zirconia system rated to have the best esthetics for all-zirconia crowns¹ and layered restorations²

Sagemax NexxZr S is the highest strength zirconia with a biaxial flexure strength of 1400 Mpa. It has multiple uses, as lab technicians can create beautiful dental restorations by veneering porcelains over this material. NexxZr S represents the ultimate restorative material, offering Esthetics Strength and Versatility.

Property	Unit	NexxZr Value	Requirement for ISO
Bulk Density	g/cm3	6.085~6.095	≥ 6.00 (iso 13356-2008)
Chemical composition: ZrO2 + HfO2 + Y2O3	Percent Mass Fraction	> 99.5	> 99
ZrO2		91.6	N/A
Y2O3		5	4.5 to 6
HfO2		3	≤ 5
AI2O3		< 0.3	< 0.5
Others oxides*		< 0.2	< 0.5
Microstructure: Mean linear inctercept distance	μm	0.25±0.05	≤ 0.4 (iso 13356:2008)
Biaxial Flexure Strength	Mpa	1,550±50	≤ 500
CTE		10 * 10^-6 (25~900°)	No ISO
Fracture Toughness:	Mpa M	10	No ISO
Radioactivity:	Bq/g	0.1	0.2 (ISO 13356:2008)
Final Sinterred Hardness:	HV10	1,200~1,300	No ISO
Pre-Sintered Blank Hardness:	HV10	65~80	No ISO
Translucency:	1-CR% (1.0mm)	≥ 30	No ISO

Benefits

Absolute biocompatibility
Perfect fits
Excellent machinability
Complete versatility
High strength

Indications:

Single crown copings with polychromatic layering
Long span bridges - full arch bridges
Implant substructures - abutments where high strength is required
Hybrid bridges - in combination with implants

More than 10 years of clinical experience and millions of successful cases worldwide.

Since its introduction in 2006, Life™ Zirconia has become a huge success story. Millions of restorations have been produced and Life™ Systems are running in over 40 countries around the globe.

Life™ Zirconia is one of the best investigated materials on the market with over 100 studies published by researchers worldwide. Life™ stands for high-strength restorations with outstanding marginal fit and excellent aesthetics. Due to its proven reliability, Life™ grants for 15 years from the date of placement that copings or substructures made out of Life™ Zirconia will not break.

If fabricated by an Authorized Life™ Milling Center or on approved Life™ Equipment in strict compliance with approved indications and instructions for use for Life™ Crowns and Bridges. Only approved indications for Life™ Zirconia are covered and the warranty does not cover any breakage resulting from accidents or misuse. Additional costs such as the cost of preparation and veneering are also not covered.

Life™ Premium Highly Translucent Zirconia Restorations

Figure 1: Initial situation: Insufficient full-cast metal crowns at teeth 26 and 27; insufficient composite filling at teeth 23, 24 and 25.

Figure 2 + 3: Final result: Life™ Premium Highly Translucent All-Zirconia single crowns at teeth 25, 26 and 27. Restorations are custom-shaded with Life™ Premium High Translucency Zirconia Dyeing Liquid and individualized with Life™ Premium High Translucency Zirconia Effect Shades. Teeth 23 and 24 restored with Filtek™ Supreme XTE.

Experience pure all-zirconia, glazed-only Life™ Premium Highly Translucent 3-unit bridge for clinical situations with little inter-occlusal space.

Figure 1: Initial situation: Insufficient provisional at teeth 45-47

Figure 2: Final situation: Monolithic Life™ Premium Highly Translucent Zirconia 3-unit Bridge at teeth 45-47. Minimum wall thickness of framework at contact points is 0.5mm

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