Sameer Puri Because the new upcoming Vita Enamic material is a hybrid material of sorts, a combination of a ceramic matrix and a polymer network intertwined, the ability to glaze the restoration in the oven is not possible. I mean, you can place the restoration in the oven but because the polymer matrix will melt away, the desire to esthetically enhance your restoration via that route is obviously not possible.
Ideally, the material is simply polished by the Enamic Polishing Kit, you can watch a video from our Digital Learning Library on polishing enamic here. However, Vita in the coming weeks will be releasing a new technique with an external glaze. The photo that you see below is a "glazed" Enamic restoration. This was not placed in the oven. The restoration was created by Mark Baker, CDT who works for Vita. The "glaze" is applied by etching the external surface with HF acid for 60 seconds, applying silane and then painting on the glaze, stain and light curing. So essentially what you see below is a paint on glaze with no oven time. The obvious question is - how will this hold up? Will the glaze eventually wear off because its not fired? That remains to be seen. But if this technique works, we have the potential for a nice adjunct to esthetically enhance our restorations without using a glazing oven.
