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IPS e.max: Lithium Disilicate Crowns & Veneers
When esthetics decide the case, IPS e.max is the ceramic clinicians reach for. Reliable Dental Studio presses and mills lithium disilicate crowns and veneers, finished by ceramists who work the smile zone every day. Family-owned since 1994, with labs in California, Colorado, and Texas.
IPS e.max Restorations: Where Esthetics Lead the Rx
IPS e.max is Ivoclar's lithium disilicate glass ceramic, and it earns its place wherever light transmission matters more than raw span. The material combines high strength for a glass ceramic with a translucency that zirconia and PFM rarely match, which is why anterior single crowns and veneers remain its home turf. At RSU, lithium disilicate is not a side product of the crown and bridge lab; it runs on its own validated workflow, from prep review and thickness control through pressing or milling to the final glaze. This hub distributes into two dedicated pages: e.max crowns and e.max veneers. Both draw on the same ceramic bench, the same verified Ivoclar blanks, and the same working rule our ceramists repeat to every new technician: the smile zone forgives nothing.
Genuine Ivoclar lithium disilicate: verified ingots and blocks on every case.
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Your e.max Lab: Thickness Controlled, Shade Layered
A lithium disilicate crown lives or dies by millimeters. Our technicians check every preparation digitally before design, hold the material's minimum thicknesses through CAD, and decide with you whether the case calls for a monolithic unit with staining or a cut-back with layered incisal porcelain. That decision, made early in the case and not at the glaze stage, is what separates an e.max crown that disappears in the arch from one that reads flat under operatory light.
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e.max Products
Two Restoration Types, One Ceramic
e.max Crowns
Full-contour and cut-back single crowns for demanding esthetics, canine to premolar.
Learn Moree.max Veneers
Pressed lithium disilicate veneers that preserve enamel and keep margins invisible.
Learn MoreOne Ceramic, Three Ways to Work It
Pressed, milled, or layered: the workflow should follow the indication, not the machine schedule. Pressing from an ingot gives a pressed veneer its dense, homogeneous surface and the fine, feathered margins that adhesive dentistry rewards. Milling from blocks keeps single crowns efficient and repeatable, with every fit verified against the digital die before finishing. And when a case needs more optical depth than surface staining can deliver, the technician cuts back the facial surface and layers incisal ceramic by hand, then fires, contours, and polishes until the unit holds its own next to a natural neighbor. Tell us the indication, the target shade, and the stump situation; if we believe a different route through the ceramic serves the patient better, the responsible technician calls you before anything is pressed or milled.
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Open a Lab AccountHow much does an e.max crown or veneer cost?
Lab fees are set per unit on our fee schedule, with monolithic and layered work priced separately because layering adds ceramist time. Request the current fee schedule through your RSU contact or when opening an account; patient pricing remains the practice's decision.
e.max crown vs zirconia: which should I prescribe?
Reach for lithium disilicate when translucency decides the outcome: anterior singles, premolar crowns, veneers over sound enamel. Choose zirconia when span or heavy function leads, from posterior crowns to multi-unit bridge work. Our technicians review each Rx and flag any case where the other material would serve the patient better.
What do e.max before and after cases look like?
The change shows most in light transmission: a discolored or heavily restored tooth that read opaque regains an incisal edge that lets light through like enamel. Results depend on stump shade and available thickness, so send photos with the shade tab in frame; they let the ceramist plan masking before the first layer.
What preparation does an e.max restoration need?
Follow the guidance of your chosen seating route: an e.max crown prep needs a defined chamfer or shoulder with adequate occlusal reduction, while an e.max veneer prep removes substantially less because the restoration bonds adhesively. We share exact prep dimensions per indication on request, verify every margin digitally before fabrication, and contact you if a prep needs clarification rather than guessing.
An IPS e.max Lab Built on Ceramic Judgment
Lithium disilicate rewards labs that respect its rules. Since 1994, Reliable Dental Studio has grown from a family-owned crown and bridge shop into a lab where the pressable ceramic runs as its own discipline, with ceramists who decide between press and mill, staining and layering, case by case. That judgment is the real product; the ceramic is only the medium it works in.
The digital backbone keeps that judgment consistent. Scans and impressions pass through verified model preparation, margins are checked by a technician before design ever starts, and CAD holds the minimum thicknesses the glass ceramic demands. Only then does an ingot go into the press furnace or a block into the mill, and every unit passes documented quality control before it ships.
Cementation gets the same attention as fabrication. Each case leaves the lab with notes on the recommended seating route, from conventional cementation on retentive crown preps to the etch-and-silane adhesive protocol that thin veneers require. If a stump shade or a margin raises questions about e.max crown cementation, the technician who built the unit talks it through with you before delivery day, not after the patient is numb.
Glass ceramic also demands its own bench culture. Press parameters are logged for every furnace run, blanks are batch-verified on arrival, and the finishing wheels used for lithium disilicate never touch zirconia dust. None of this shows up in a product photo, but small disciplines, repeated daily for three decades, are the reason the demanding esthetic cases keep coming back to this bench.
e.max Cases From Practices in All 50 States
Esthetic work reaches us the same way from everywhere: digital cases arrive through the secure portal the moment you hit send, and physical impressions travel via UPS and FedEx with prepaid labels and boxes we provide. Our lab in Rosemead, California (3020 Ivar Ave) keeps your cases moving, and practices near the location can schedule pickups instead of shipping.
Who sends us this work? Cosmetic-focused practices that live in the smile zone, general dentists who want one dependable answer for the occasional anterior challenge, and group practices and DSOs standardizing their anterior ceramic protocol across multiple offices. Different case volumes, same expectation: the tenth veneer of the month has to look as considered as the first one did.
The ceramic bench rarely works alone. A veneer case often sits next to a zirconia bridge in the posterior, a shade change touches an existing implant restoration, and a bruxing patient may need a night guard over freshly seated ceramics. Because fixed work, implants, and appliances share one roof at RSU, combination cases stay coordinated under one Rx and one contact.
Turnaround for lithium disilicate restorations is 7–10 working days, so your seat date is planned, not assumed; put a fixed appointment on the Rx and we schedule backwards from it. Ready to put this ceramic to work in your smile-zone cases? Open a lab account, or route the next e.max crown or veneer straight through the portal. You will hear from us within 24 hours, and with your documents complete, Rx slips, prepaid shipping supplies, and portal access follow.