Now with Contessa, exclusively from Aurum Ceramic/Classic, you can prescribe beautiful pressable ceramic restorations anywhere in the mouth. Unlike other all-ceramic systems, you can use traditional conservative 360º butt or chamfer margin preparations! And, you can cement these restorations with your favourite C&B cement.

Aurum Ceramic/Classic’s LVI-trained AE (Advanced Esthetic) Team™’s unique techniques make your restorations come alive! Copings are stopped one mm short of the margin. The porcelain is then pressed from the margin to the incisal edge for unsurpassed esthetics.

Dentin coloured translucent substructures eliminate opaque show-through, even at the gingival third. In combination with the unique fluorescence of Contessa’s high strength pressable ceramic, everything from full coverage single crowns to anterior and posterior bridges can be created that blend perfectly with surrounding natural dentition.

Pressable ceramic over yttria-stabilized zirconia core

Framework on model clearly illustrating
1 mm cutback for pressed ceramic.

Indicated for single crowns and up to 48 mm anterior or posterior bridges, Contessa Zirconia is based on a high flexural strength (900 MPa) pure yttria-stabilized Zirconia core milled with Zeno® Tec Technology. These zirconia frameworks are naturally resistant to crack formation because they are milled from a single block. In addition, zirconia exhibits “transformation toughening” which literally squeezes microcracks together eliminating fracture propagation. This process of actively resisting crack growth is critical in fatigue situations such as those caused by posterior masticatory forces.