Somer Dental Labs

Full Cast Crowns

Our full cast crowns are truly pieces of jewelry you will be proud to deliver and see yearfullcastimage after year. We focus on anatomy and build fit, form and function into every crown.

Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns

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.

We like the Vita 3D Master Shade Guide* and Ceramco 3 allows us to pull the maximum benefit from the 3D Master Shade Guide System, Dr. Christensen’s shade guide of choice.

If you would like to schedule a Lunch & Learn that includes a Dr. Christensen’s DVD presentation, please call Ted Coates.

Captek® Crowns and Bridges

Nano Technology enables us to make Captek alloy denser and stronger and thus
suitable for beautiful bridge work. Our Captek copings are made at Somer and
use Ceramco 3 porcelain.

Captek copings will look lovely and natural and will never have a black line to disfigure the patient. Crowns and bridges fit beautifully and reduce plaque and bacteria – even when compared to natural dentition.

* Call the lab to order your shade guide.

Please note: Unit pricing enables us to serve our offices more conveniently and predictably. It is based on gold prices as of 12/16/08. A $20 increase in the cost of a ounce of gold will result in a $1 increase in the cost of a high noble alloy based crown.

Metal Free Restorations

Metal Free Restorations

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. Somer’s color modification techniques and Nobel’s color infiltrated cores allow us to promise no unsightly brightness or headlight effect.

IPS Empress®, e.max® & e.max CAD®

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, venivoclarvivadent2eers, inlays and onlays are lovely, vital and esthetic.

e.max® is a lithium discilicate material and is ideal for esthetic cases when bonding is unnecessary or contraindicated. Crowns and bridges, venivoclarvivadent2eers, 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.

Lava®

Lava crowns and bridges combine the accuracy of CAD/CAM technology, cementability, a patented substructure shade system, the strength of Zirconia and natural translucency.

Schedule

Case Scheduling

Restorations over an implant add 1-day production. Allow 2 days shipping on all cases.

Cases that are received in our laboratory after 1:00 p.m. add 1 day shipping.

Poured models are needed to schedule a precise return date in all other implant cases.

Somer Hours of Business

We are open for business and welcome your inquiries from 7:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Our drivers pick-up and deliver cases Monday through Friday.

To schedule a pick-up, call 317.873.1111 or 800.283.1110 during business hours or Friday mornings. After hours, please call the Somer Pick-up Hotline at 317.873.1119.