Product Profile: Glidewell

Prescribe restorations with confidence

Over the past decade, the restorative landscape in dentistry has changed substantially with the release of a new class of materials: high-strength monolithic ceramics. These tooth-colored materials have demonstrated great success rates and have become many dentists’ go-to solution. A leader in this new category, BruxZir Zirconia, has been prescribed more than 23 million times worldwide and serves as a key treatment component for many patients.

The team at Glidewell is humbled by the confidence that clinicians have placed in the material. The speed at which practitioners adopted full-contour zirconia into their daily routines far surpassed the company’s expectations. Today, BruxZir is proven to be lasting, versatile and wear-friendly, earning praise from practitioners and research institutions alike.

As a statement of Glidewell’s ongoing confidence in BruxZir Zirconia, the company is extending the warranty of all BruxZir restorations produced at Glidewell Laboratories from seven years to the patient’s lifetime. This new BruxZir Lifetime Warranty enables clinicians to have their cases remade for free should the restoration fail during the patient’s lifetime.

Intended to give clinicians extra peace of mind, this no-cost dental warranty extends to any BruxZir Zirconia restoration made at Glidewell, including crowns, bridges, veneers, inlays, onlays, screw-retained crowns and full-arch implant prostheses. Should dentists experience a problem with their restoration, they can contact the Glidewell team for a free replacement.

A decade after the brand’s release, BruxZir Zirconia has garnered top accolades from research organizations, evaluators and clinician groups. In fact, the August 2019 issue of the independent Gordon J. Christensen Clinicians Report stated that, “BruxZir is the most successful tooth-colored restoration in the history of dentistry.”

BruxZir Zirconia is proven to last. The monolithic material has demonstrated outstanding clinical performance in a 10-year independent study published by the Clinicians Report in September 2020, with 100% of the studied BruxZir restorations surviving. The material was also found to provide the strength and toughness necessary to survive common clinical abuses.

The BruxZir family of materials empowers clinicians to provide both performance and a patient-pleasing appearance, and is affordably priced in hopes of making life-changing transformations more widely available. BruxZir restorations also allow for minimal preparation and offer straightforward delivery.

For more information, visit glidewell.com/policies-and-warranties or call 800-887-3553.