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Updated strength on milled emax
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<blockquote data-quote="Patrick Coon" data-source="post: 306851" data-attributes="member: 11366"><p>Hi Kam Yu,</p><p></p><p>The strength of e.max has not changed, just updated the testing to reflect what other companies are doing (different versions of the flexural strength that are allowed by the ISO standard). With these new tests, the milled version actually comes out with a little higher Biaxial Flexural Strength. Fracture toughness is not changed (that test is set in the ISO standard) and they are basically the same for pressed and milled.</p><p></p><p>As for fit and margin quality, that is more defined by the mill, grinding strategies, and following the manufacture's guidelines for minimal thickness requirements and prep design.</p><p></p><p>Cracking in the lab can be caused by several things, including sharp prep designs and uneven thicknesses. We get these in the pressed version as well, but most labs will use die spacer to round sharp edges, and have added slow cooling to to make sure that everything cools evenly to compensate for the thick-thin-thick (uneven thickness) issues. You can do the exact same things to take carre of these in the milled version.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Patrick Coon, post: 306851, member: 11366"] Hi Kam Yu, The strength of e.max has not changed, just updated the testing to reflect what other companies are doing (different versions of the flexural strength that are allowed by the ISO standard). With these new tests, the milled version actually comes out with a little higher Biaxial Flexural Strength. Fracture toughness is not changed (that test is set in the ISO standard) and they are basically the same for pressed and milled. As for fit and margin quality, that is more defined by the mill, grinding strategies, and following the manufacture's guidelines for minimal thickness requirements and prep design. Cracking in the lab can be caused by several things, including sharp prep designs and uneven thicknesses. We get these in the pressed version as well, but most labs will use die spacer to round sharp edges, and have added slow cooling to to make sure that everything cools evenly to compensate for the thick-thin-thick (uneven thickness) issues. You can do the exact same things to take carre of these in the milled version. [/QUOTE]
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