Ardie Hagoort, International sales manager for Kettenbach shares his tips on how to create temporary restorations with Kettenbach impression materials and Visalys Temp.
Ardie is an ambassador for Kettenbach materials and passionate to promote the intelligent solutions, especially in impression materials, that Kettenbach offer. Their aim is to help clinicians and give the best possible advice so that they can concentrate on what is most important - their patients.
“If the clinician takes the time to ensure a quality provisional restoration is made, the patient will have an aesthetically pleasing, wear resistant, long and comfortable provisional restoration that is long lasting – even for implant recovery times. Life is also made easier in the long run for the dentist; time is spared later on from correcting and adjusting or even re-making.
The restoration will ensure minimal to no tooth movement and good gingival health. It also protects the pulp – smooth surfaces help to prevent biofilm and build up of plaque. The process begins with a quality impression – paramount to the quality of the final result of your restoration.”
“My first tip - try Silginat instead of alginate!” says Ardie. Silginat was specifically developed for alginate applications but with the advantages of an A silicone. Dentists can use Siginat for taking impressions of the opposing jaw, temporary crowns and bridges and fabricating splints.
Silginat is available for purchase from Optident on the Silginat product page.
A dentist should be able to fabricate stable, aesthetic and attractive temporary restorations with minimal effort using a good quality temporary crown and bridge material. Visalys is a hardwearing material with an extremely high final hardness.
Visalys is available for purchase from Optident on the Visalys product page.
Optident stocks the full range of Kettenbach products including the Applyfix Dispensing Gun and all products mentioned above.
“Within the limits of this study, the mechanical properties of VIS show significantly higher values for modulus of elasticity, flexural strength and flexural fatigue limit compared to commercially available provisional materials. Therefore VIS may be a suitable solution for long term temporary restorations.”
Modulus of Elasticity (ME) of different temporary crown and bridge materials.
Flexural Strength (FS) in comparison with the Flexural Fatigue Limit (FFL) of temporaries.
Individual results to determine the Flexural Fatigue Limit (FFL).
Kettenbach is an internationally oriented family business based in Germany. They have been developing and marketing products for the fields of dentistry and medicine for almost 65 years. Standing for intelligent, straightforward and reliable solutions that are ahead of their time, they have evolved into a major player on the global market, particularly as a specialist in the field of impression materials. They consistently focus on the in-house research, development and production of their materials, with a high level of innovation and quality and have always had a particular focus on the user. In addition to classic silicone impression and bite registration materials, Kettenbach also offers materials for a wide range of supplementary products such as mix systems, adhesives, disinfectants and casts, among others. Due to their focus on a coordinated system of materials, which takes into account every step in the impression process, they are able to deliver the accurate results expected by dentists, dental technicians and patients alike.