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Benefits & Features

Protemp™ Crown's innovative technology offers features and benefits that are truly unique. Read more to find out how Protemp™ Crown can help add value in your office.

Significant Time Savings

Protemp™ Crown offers significant time savings for your dental office.
Perform a single-unit crown in less than four minutes. That’s twice as fast as automix (i.e. Integrity™, Luxatemp™, Voco) and powder liquid (i.e Snap™, Jet™ and Trim™) systems.  This means decreasing chair-time by 50% using Protemp Crown for single-unit temporary restorations and increasing overall office productivity.

Speed of Protemp Crown*
compared to current material used
*Dentists placing at least 15 single unit temporary crowns per month

Simple to Use

Protemp™ Crown is simple to use and easy to fabricate with less mess.  No matrix, impression materials, cartridge guns, mixing tips or liners are needed - simply select the appropriate preformed crown size. With its soft malleability, easily adapt the crown to its oral environment, light cure, polish and cement using standard temporary cements.

Easy to Use
Top reason cited as why Protemp Crown is easy
  1. No Impression or Matrix
  2. No mess or clean up
  3. Easier to obtain good occlusion
  4. Easier to obtain interproximal contacts

Custom Fit

Protemp™ Crown provides a custom fit for your adult patients.  Protemp™ Crown temporization material can be trimmed, adapted and re-shaped chair-side using common dental instruments. The end result produces a good marginal, interproximal and occlusal fit which promotes gingival health and maintains temporary space while maintaining good provisional strength.

Gingival Health*
compared to current material used
*64 U.S. dentists in 2005 application test

Very low Oxygen Inhibited Layer

Protemp™ Crown has very low oxygen inhibited layer and other physical characteristics such as no odor and low exothermic temperatures.  Because Protemp™ Crown is not a liquid powder mix, there is no unpleasant smell when working with the product.  And because it is light cured on demand there are low exothermic temperatures during the fitting process.

Oxygen Inhibition Layer Comparison
Initial comparison

Natural Looking Esthetics

Protemp™ Crown has natural looking esthetics.  It provides a tooth-colored temporary restoration that most dentists have found to be better than other temporary materials.  Protemp™ Crown has an anatomical shape similar to natural dentition that you can polish and customize and/or repair using conventional composite or flowable materials.

Esthetics*
compared to current material used
*64 U.S. dentists in 2005 application test