TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brandt, Silvia
A1  - Winter, Anna
A1  - Lauer, Hans-Christoph
A1  - Kollmar, Fritz
A1  - Portscher-Kim, Soo-Jeong
A1  - Romanos, Georgios
T1  - IPS e.max for all-ceramic restorations : clinical survival and success rates of full-coverage crowns and fixed partial dentures
T2  - Materials
N2  - The IPS e.max system by Ivoclar Vivadent, offering a variety of products and indications, is widely used for all-ceramic restorations. We analyzed the clinical track record of these products in daily clinical practice, associating their restorative survival rate with various parameters to define recommendations for long-term stability. A total of 1058 full-coverage crowns and fixed partial dentures (FPDs) were evaluated retrospectively over up to 66.48 (37.05 ± 18.4) months. All were made of IPS e.max Press, IPS e.max CAD, IPS e.max Ceram or IPS e.max ZirPress and had been delivered by a private dental practice within three years. Uses not recommended by the manufacturer were also deliberately included. The five-year cumulative survival was 94.22% (i.e., 94.69% or 90.58% for glass-ceramic crowns or FDPs and 100% or 90.06% for zirconia-based crowns or FDPs). Significantly superior outcomes emerged for conventional vs. adhesive cementation and for vital vs. non-vital abutment teeth, but not for recommended vs. non-recommended uses. Caution is required in restoring non-vital teeth, but the spectrum of recommended uses should generally be reconsidered and expanded, given our finding of high survival and success rates for IPS e.max ceramics, even for uses not currently recommended by the manufacturer.
KW  - IPS e.max system
KW  - full-contour crown restorations
KW  - fixed partial dentures
KW  - survival rate
KW  - success rate
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49078
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-490780
SN  - 1996-1944
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).
VL  - 12
IS  - 3, Art. 462
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - MDPI
CY  - Basel
ER  -