Lithium Disilicate vs PMMA: How American Dental Labs Are Using Both Materials to Their Advantage
Dental labs running CAD/CAM production often treat lithium disilicate and PMMA dental materials as occupying separate and distinct positions in their workflow: lithium disilicate for esthetic pressed or milled final restorations, PMMA for temporaries. This framing is accurate as far as it goes, but it understates the ways in which...