Somer Dental Labs

Overdenture Bars

Elvis — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 14:38:59 +0000

Somer’s implant bars act as a substructure for multiple implant-based prostheses. It is the most accurate, diverse and aesthetic custom framework cleared by the FDA.

Created for each patient using CAD software, the bars are milled from a single piece of titanium alloy for superior strength and provides an unsurpassed fit with much better results than traditional casting processes.

What it means for your practice
• Requires no capital investment
• Improves fit and durability
• Eliminates cutting and soldering
• Reduces patient visits
• Offers time savings of up to 10 hours
• Supports screw, cement, and combination connections
• Works with nearly every implant system, even within a single prosthesis

What it means for your patients
• Offers improved aesthetics
• Reduces number of visits
• Improves delivery time of prosthesis
• Provides superior strength with titanium alloy

See our “How-to” office visit guide for overdenture bars. Just replace the number of implants for you individual needs.

Overdenture Office Visits Guide

Full Contour Zirconia Crowns

Elvis — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:45:41 +0000

Our Bruxzir and Pearl crowns are a durable solution that is less expensive and more esthetically pleasing than full cast crowns. Because frequent grinding or clenching of teeth puts extreme wear on dental work, your bruxing patients need a strong solution. Our Bruxzirs and Pearls deliver, with an all-zirconia structure that provides material durability… without the cost of typical PFM restoration or the obvious look of full cast metal crowns. The CAD/CAM milling technology delivers consistent quality while the all-zirconia material provides solid, chip-resistant results with no porcelain overlay.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ADJUSTMENT AND POLISHING

Adjust using water and air spray to keep the restoration cool and to avoid micro-fractures with a fine grit diamond. If using air only, use the lightest touch possible when making adjustments. A football shaped bur is most effective for occlusal and lingual surfaces on anterior teeth; a tapered bur is the ideal choice for buccal and lingual surfaces.

Somer Dental recommends using a Brasseler USA Zirconia adjustment kit. To order call Brasseler @ 1-800-841-4522 : product order # 225.00.638. For a modified prep kit order # K000017.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CEMENTATION

Resin-reinforced glass ionomer cement (Rely X Luting Cement, 3M ESPS, GC Fuji Plus, GC America)
Resin cements for short or over-tapered preparations (Rely X Unicem, 3M ESPE)

Full Cast Crowns

Elvis — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 13:43:48 +0000

A full-cast restoration is ideal for single unit crowns or bridges when occlusal space is limited.

We Offer:

Yellow or White Non-Precious

Yellow or White Noble

Yellow High Noble

Welcome to Somer Dental Laboratory

John Feeney — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:41:33 +0000

Somer Dental Laboratory was founded in 1982 by Larry Sowinski, CDT and Keith Spencer, CDT. Somer is located in Zionsville, Indiana. MAP

Everyday, our technicians set teeth, build porcelain, cast frames, wax copings, scan models, and mill crowns on schedule on time and get great report cards from our dentists. Learn More

DAILY PICK-UP & DELIVERY SERVICE AREA
For dentists in the Indianapolis and surrounding areas we offer free, daily pickup and delivery on an on-call basis. Please contact Elvis or Becki at (317)873-1111 for information regarding your specific location and to get started.

MAIL AND UPS CASES
We provide you with case boxes and pre-paid mail or UPS labels. Your finished case will be returned by UPS to your location.

Happy 30th Anniversary Somer

Elvis — Sat, 17 Mar 2012 10:10:02 +0000

Do you remember 1982?

Gas was only 91 cents.

A US Postage stamp cost only 20 cents.

Michael Jackson released Thriller.

E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial hit the theaters.

The first CD player sold in Japan.

USA Today published its first issue.

Graceland opened its doors to the public.

And

Somer Dental Laboratories opened on March 1, 1982 and continues to lead the industry with its full range of services and products. Thank you to all of the dentist and offices that helped make Somer what it is today.

Implant & Combination Cases

Elvis — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:12:47 +0000

Implant & Combination Cases are Somer specialties. With years of experience with every aspect of implants, we can guide you through all new and old cases.

3i Implant Innovations

Astra Tech

Bicon Dental Implants

BioHorizons Implant Systems

Camlog

Dentsply Friadent Ceramed Inc

IMTEC Corporation

Innova LifeSciences Co (Sybron Dental from 2006)

Interpore IMZ

Keystone

Lifecore Biomedical, Inc

Neoss

Nobel Biocare

Osteo-Implant Comp

Sterngold Implamed Dental Implant Systems

Straumann

Thommen Medical

Zimmer Dental

And many, many more.

Please email Elvis to start a treatment plan and estimate.

Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns and Bridges

Elvis — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:01:43 +0000

From single units to full arch bridges Somer offers many types of excellent alloy choices.

Non-Precious

White Noble

White High Noble

Yellow High Noble

For porcelain, Ceramco 3® is our primary porcelain of choice. The granular structure lends itself to excellent wear characteristics. Our ceramists achieve amazing shade nuances and control.

Lava

Elvis — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:07:46 +0000

When you prescribe Lava™ Crowns and Bridges, you are choosing the brand most asked for by dentists, and one that delivers exactly what you want in a restoration:

Fit
Precision computer design system results in excellent fit

Strength
Lava zirconia provides high strength performance and reliability

Beauty
Natural translucency and patented shading system produce
unmatched esthetics

Your patients deserve something more precious than metal.
Prescribe Lava Crowns and Bridges and bring out the natural
beauty in their smile.
Current Indications
• Single crowns • Splinted crowns • Cantilever bridges
with cantilever unit on premolar or incisor3 • Inlay and onlay
bridges3 • Maryland bridges3 • 6-unit bridges with up to 4
pontics in the anterior region • Custom implant abutments

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ADJUSTMENT AND POLISHING

Avoid internal adjustments of lava crowns. If adjustment is necessary, adjust prepped tooth. If adjustment is required on the veneering ceramic, use a fine diamond at low speed with water and air to keep from fracturing.

To polish, use a porcelain polishing system or pink rubber wheel and diamond polishing paste. (Brasseler, Shofu, Vident)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CEMENTATION

Traditional cementation or adhesive bonding. (Rely X Unicem, GC Fuji glass ionomer, Panavia)

IPS Empress, e.max & e.max CAD

Elvis — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:05:56 +0000

Bonded Empress Esthetic® from Ivoclar remains the gold standard for cosmetic dentistry. Nothing equals the vitality, translucency and idealized esthetic we achieve with a leucite reinforced glass ceramic material.

e.max® is a lithium discilicate material and is ideal for esthetic cases when bonding is unnecessary or contraindicated. Crowns and bridges, veneers, inlays and onlays are lovely, vital and esthetic.

e.max® CAD is the latest, high tech generation of the Ivoclar family. e.max CAD is computer designed and milled from lithium discilcate blocks.

e.max CAD achieves lively esthetics for crowns, laminates, inlays and onlays so efficiently cosmetic cases are universally affordable.

Helpful Esthetic Hint: All IPS Empress, e.max and e.max CAD cases are enhanced by the use of a prep shade*. Restorations will be more lively, vital and natural. Send the prep shade; we’ll give your patient maximum esthetics.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR ADJUSTMENT AND POLISHING

If adjustments are necessary, use a fine diamond with water to prevent fracturing.

Polish with a porcelain polishing wheel (Brassler, Shofu, and Vident) and diamond polishing paste.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR CEMENTATION

Can be adhesively bonded or conventionally cemented.

Procera Crowns

Elvis — Sat, 10 Mar 2012 16:04:24 +0000

Procera® Crowns – Nobel Z

NobelProcera offers a complete range of cement-retained crowns and bridges on natural teeth and abutments.
Achieve high prosthetic flexibility – from coping and bridge frameworks to full-contour crowns and temporary fullcontour bridges.

Our Procera crowns, which we call Nobel Z, are made with cementable Zirconia; we use our own Nobel Biocare Forte Scanner that guarantees accurate fits and closed margins.