GC Initial LiSi Press is a high-strength lithium disilicate with proprietary HDM (high density micronation) technology which equally disperses large sized crystals, filling the entire glass matrix, resulting in excellent physical properties and esthetics. The material is wear resistant and has a flexural strength of 500 MPa.
Description
Save $10
- Per unit by using an intra-oral scanner
4 Days
- Turnaround time
Lifetime
- 7 Years warranty

LiSi Press, along with its natural life-like esthetics, provides exceptional physical properties with rich, warm and bright colors for an eye-catching fluorescence.
Required Case Material
- Upper and lower impressions or models
- Bite Registration
- Tooth shade
- Stump shade
Advantages
- 4 day in-lab turnaround
- Save $10 per unit by using an intra-oral scanner and model-less technique
- Conventionally cement or bond using a full resin
Indications
- Anterior & Posterior Crowns
- Anterior 3 unit bridges
- Screw-Retained Crowns
- Crowns over Custom Abutments
- Inlays & Onlays
- Veneers
Contraindications
- Dark, underlying stump shades
Materials
- Lithium Disilicate Glass Ceramic (500 MPa)
Suggested Preparation
Anterior crowns require a CHAMFER margin:
- 1.0-1.5 mm facial/labial reduction
- 1.0 mm deep chamfer margin
- .07-1.2 mm lingual reduction
Veneers require a CHAMFER margin
- 0.3-1.0mm facial/labial reduction
- 0.3-0.7 mm deep chamfer margin
Posterior crowns require a CHAMFER margin:
- 1.0-1.5 mm occlusal reduction
- 1.5 mm axial
- 1.0 mm deep chamfer margin
Recommended Cementation
- Resin Self Etch/ Self Adhesive Resin (crowns and bridges NOT veneers)
- Panavia SA Cement, Kuraray
- Rely-x Unicem Automix 2, 3M ESPEMax Cem Elite, Kerr
- RMGI (Resin Modified Glass Ionomer) (crowns and bridges NOT veneers)
- Fugi Cem Automix, GC America
- Rely-x Luting Plus, 3M ESPE
- Resin Bonding (Veneers)
- Panavia V5 Cement, Kuraray
- Variolink II, Ivoclar Vivadent
- Rely-x Veneer, 3M ESPE
- Calibra, Dentsply Caulk