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Overview Dentist Lab Products Resources Lava™ Milling Centres
and Accredited Lava™ Partners

Lava™ Precision solutions

We integrate digital technology and material science in an intuitive way to help dentists and labs improve productivity while offering superior oral care.


Lava™ Ceram Overlay Porcelain

The Lava brand is hot.

Find out why doctors ask for Lava™ restorations by name more than all the other zirconia brands combined.

Lava™ Indications

Indications

Get more from your Lava investment. Tap into resources available from 3M ESPE.

Lava™ Precision Solutions

It's easy to offer

It's easy for dentists and labs to offer Lava™ restorations without investing in hardware.

Lava™ Precision Solutions

Authentic Lava™ Warranty

Lava™ Business models

Flexible business models for labs

3M ESPE offers three business models that make it possible for any size of lab to offer genuine Lava™.

Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner

Lava™ Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S.

3M ESPE will soon offer digital impressioning with Lava C.O.S.

Lava Before and After photos

Photography courtesy of Ariel Raigrodski, DMD, MS

Every day more dentists ask their lab for the Lava brand from 3M ESPE. Lava restorations are made with Lava zirconia and are designed and milled with the innovative Lava CAD/CAM system. The combination of materials and precision milling produces a strong restoration with an excellent marginal fit.

With a broad range of indications available, it's easy to offer Lava™ restorations.


Choose the Sintering Program that is Best for You

Lava™ Classic
Total time: 8 hours and 30 min.

Drying Time: 3 hours and 30 min. Air Exchange: 12 min. Sintering Cycle: 4 hours 48 min.

Designed for automation or overnight use, this program includes drying time for shaded copings and frameworks. Drying occurs on the furnace lift. During the sintering cycle, the furnace will automatically open to release the accumulated gases from the shading liquid.

Lava™ Pre-dried
Total time: 5 hours

Air Exchange: 12 min. Sintering Cycle: 4 hours 48 min.

This program allows you to reduce “oven time” by drying shaded copings and frameworks outside the furnace. During the sintering cycle, the furnace will open to release gases from the shading liquid that accumulate within the furnace.

Lava™ Non-shaded
Total time 4 hours and 48 min

Sintering Cycle: 4 hours and 48 minutes

This program is for unshaded copings and frameworks. It is the fastest program because there is no need to include drying time or exchange of the atmosphere in the furnace chamber during the sintering cycle.

Lava™ Precision solutions

A complete family of products that come from the integration of materials science and digital technology.


Lava™ Precision Solutions

Lava™ Frame Zirconia

Not all zirconia is created equal. Learn why more dentists ask for Lava™ Zirconia than all the other brands of zirconia combined.1

Lava™ Form Milling System

Lava™ Form Milling System

Lava™ Copings and Frameworks are milled with precision, and without supervision or manual intervention.

Lava™ Scan ST Scanner

Lava™ Scan ST Scanner

Our scanner is part of the Lava CAD/CAM system for Lava™ Milling Centers or as a satellite scanner for Lava™ Design Centers.

Lava™ Therm Furnace

Lava™ Furnace 200

Faster Sintering, More Output

Lava™ Precision Solutions

Design your future

Learn about our latest software upgrade which allows labs to offer more while increasing productivity.

Lava™ Ceram Overlay

Lava™ Ceram Overlay Porcelain

Designed for Lava™ Zirconia, our porcelain provides proven strength to Lava™ copings and frameworks.

Order Lava™ Literature (DOC, 854KB)

Handling and Prep Guide for Lava™ Restorations (PDF, 834KB)
Detailed instructions for dentists and labs

A Collection of Scientific Results (PDF, 1.5MB)
A collection of published research studies

Lava™ Technical Product Profile (PDF, 826KB)

Lava™ Flyer (PDF, 419KB)
A general overview for dentists.

Lava™ Procedure Video (WMV, 12.2MB)
View the clinical procedure

Lava™ Zirconia Scientific Facts (PDF, 1.3MB)

Lava™ Lab Catalogue (PDF, 3.8MB)