Controlling your dentine buildup,is crucial to creation. Cut back more than most other porcelains. I the. Snowcap lighter shades with TI2 , darker with TI3 before layering SI, and enamels. I used to overlay everything on a second bake using HT at the neck, and CLO in Incisal and Mid sections...
I use 770C for full press crowns with a 90second hold time and use vacuum even though the book says to fire without vacuum. For cutback everything is fired and glazed at 750C.
You can also use small amounts of ivoclar classic impulse ceramics such as t-blue, t-grey with creation, the ct's are similar. OCD-orange from ivoclar classic is fantastic to use to correct a porcelain margin on the glaze fire. For a warmer Incisal colour, you can also use the creation HT...
I've worked with creation for around 14 years, unfortunately now using vita vm 13, and not a happy camper with it. Just been using a trial kit if GC Initial which is pretty much creation mark 2. And ivoclar been in today to drop off inline. You can achieve almost any result if you know and...
I have tried the cerabien porcelain and didn't like it much, I was using creation at the time. I saw their stand at IDS and didn't like any of the work on the stand, mostly over polished and very fake looking. Not really great lighting there so I can't say I'd change my mind. I'm currently using...
I use both. Emax is way easier, however if I work off photos and have to mask out areas of tooth I go for refractory as I'm only masking small areas and not the whole veneer surface. I can't stand the messing around with margins doing refractory, it wastes so much time and sometimes - crack!
A good mate of mine was a shofu demonstrator for over 10 years. I bumped into him at IDS in Cologne where he was demonstrating another top end ceramic. I spent the rest of the day with him walking around. I asked if he could choose any ceramic to use what would he use. He replied that he would...
Just back from ids in cologne. On the tanaka stand they had a stay on glaze that supposedly chemically bonds to the zirconia. You spray it inside the crown where it has a space for die spacer, you remove the glaze spray around the margins so as not to affect fit. Once fired you can then etch the...
Creation have 2 zirconia porcelains. One is feldspathic and the other is synthetic. I personally didn't notice much difference between them. I probably preferred the look of the feldspathic, but that's very subjective.
Creation is a fantastic porcelain system, however it takes a lot of work to...
Hi all, I went to a willi geller course in London for a couple of days. He uses no liner on his ceramic, but rather a high fluoro stain to stain the white coping to the desired shade. I have tried that using Vita interno stains and then leaving out liner, and layering Vita VM9 directly on top...
Hi there. We use the giroform system which is essentially similar to zeiser although to my mind has improvements over the zeiser system. The main one is the use of magnets to hold the base still when drilling the holes in the base. Their sectional duplicating jig is also more flexible in use...
Hi Edy, I have done a little work with gc initial. Very nice porcelain, very similar to geller creation. It needs a lot of overlayering with incisals to get the correct translucency. The current lab I'm working in uses Vita VM13, Some of the colours aregreat, other parts are awful, particularly...