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LavaTM  Crown and Bridge solutions from 3M ESPE
 
Every day more Dentists ask their lab for LavaTM Crowns and Bridges from 3M ESPE. LavaTM restorations are made with LavaTM zirconia and are designed and milled with the innovative LavaTM CAD/CAM system. The combination of materials and precision milling produces a strong restoration with excellent marginal fit.
 
  
3M and Columbia Dental Lab seminar in Vancouver 28 July 2008
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Two ways to process your order
 
Dentist -Prescribes Lava™ Restoration and sends elastomeric material impression to Columbia Dental Laboratory.                                             or...
Creates a digital impression via the Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. and sends the impression via email to Columbia Dental Laboratory.
 
Columbia Dental Lab -Receives Rx and impression from dentist for model work, scanning with our in lab 3M ST scanner and processing at a LavaTM milling center for LavaTM coping or frame work. 
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Receives a digital impression file via email and after marking the margins, forwards the file to a LavaTM milling center for processing.
 
Authorized LavaTM Milling Center -Creates LavaTM Coping or Framework,  Forwards restoration to dental lab for finishing
 
 
Limited Five-Year Warranty  3M ESPE warrants for 5 years from the date of placement that the copings or substructures made of our LavaTM Frame Zirconium Oxide will not break if fabricated by an Authorized LavaTM Milling Center. 
 
How do you know you have a Genuine LavaTM Restoration?

 
             

 


Now you can be assured that you're getting genuine Lava™ Zirconia!
With our new online verification system, you can confirm you're getting the quality performance you've come to expect from authentic LavaTM restorations.
Using the special barcoded labels you receive with your restorations, now you're just a click away from verifying the authenticity of genuine LavaTM zirconia.
 
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