Dale Dental is a Certified IPS Empress Laboratory
All Empress restorative products are fabricated using the lost wax technique. Using this technique, waxed patterns of full crowns and 3-unit bridges are invested and put through a burn-out process. Small ingots of the desired shaded glass material are then placed into the heated ring, molten and pressed into the pattern using specialized Ivoclar pressing equipment. The process yields accurate, highly esthetic units that can be layered with additional porcelains and stained to achieve the desired color.