Has anyone here used the 3M Lava Crown material with success? I had all of my amalgam fillings removed and replaced with Diamond Lite material. Now it is time to replace my crowns and get rid of the amalgam material underneath. I evalutated 3 different crown materials from 3 different dentists. One is the 3M Lava mentioned above, the other is Ivoclar Vivadent ProCAD Blocks used with the Dentist's Cerec equipment in his office, and the third is Procera crown material by Nobel Biocare.. The dentist who uses the Lava also sent me the MSDS sheets on the buildup to be used underneath, two products made by Ivoclar Vivadent: IPS Empress Esthetic Ingots and IPS e.max Press/Zirpress. He is not going to use any metal-based materials at all in the new crowns, either in the crown itself or the buildup. But I do realize that there are metals in all of the composite materials, and no material will probably be perfect. But almost anything will be an improvement to having amalgams with mercury in my mouth. Just wondering if anyone has had any good or bad experience with the 3M Lava Frame crowns? ky77
