E-max Veneers in the Dominican Republic

Layered porcelain is built up in successive coats and fired between them. E-max starts as a solid ingot of lithium disilicate that is pressed into shape under heat and pressure. The result has no internal boundaries between layers, and boundaries are where restorations tend to fail first.

That matters most when the restoration has to be thin. A tooth that needs minimal reduction, or a case where the bite leaves little room, is where a pressed ceramic earns its place. Dr. Collado will tell you in the consultation whether your case is one of them.

The clinic publishes E-max at US$300 per tooth. That figure is the material and the restoration; what your case needs in total depends on how many teeth are involved and whether anything has to be treated first.

A stronger ceramic is only useful if it still reads as a tooth. E-max transmits light well, though slightly less than a hand-layered feldspathic porcelain, and that difference is the honest trade-off between the two materials.

For most people the trade is worth it. For a case where the front teeth sit in strong daylight and translucency is the whole point, porcelain may be the better answer. The consultation is where that gets decided against your face, not against a preference.