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Multilink® Automix “Easy” Now Available Easier Excess Cement Clean-up With High Bond Strengths Amherst, NY (January 5, 2009) – In response to market demands, Ivoclar Vivadent is pleased to introduce Multilink® Automix “Easy”. This new “Easy Clean-Up” formulation of the clinically proven self-curing luting composite with light-curing option now offers extended clean-up time for those dentists choosing to pre-polymerize excess material with a dental curing light. Additionally, dentists will still recognize all of the Multilink Automix advantages: high immediate bond strengths; efficient, durable adhesion; good marginal adaptation and effective sealing of the dentin; uncomplicated application technique; and an ability to cement restorations made from metal, metal-ceramic, all-ceramic, and composite materials.

To use the new Multilink Automix “Easy Clean-Up” formulation and “Quarter Technique” to remove excess cement, dentists simply light-cure excess material for 2 to 4 seconds per quarter surface (ie, mesio-oral, disto-oral, mesiobuccal, disto-buccal). This causes the excess cement to obtain a gel-like consistency so that it can be easily removed with a scaler.

Due to its patented, hydrolytically stable phosphoric acids (acidic monomers), Multilink Automix “Easy” is capable of meeting the expectations of (more)

dentists and their patients regarding high bond strength and efficient, durable adhesion. Within only 10 minutes, Multilink Automix “Easy” establishes a reliable and long-lasting bond to a large variety of restorative materials. What’s more, Multilink Automix continues to be ideal for cases that require fast and reliable self-curing (chemical curing) and/or do not allow cementation to be completed with light-curing due to restricted access to light (eg, oxide ceramics).

Multilink Automix “Easy” is available in system packs that include the Multilink® Primer A/B in shades opaque, yellow and transparent, the metal/zirconia primer, Monobond-S, the Automix syringe, and various accessories. Refills of each Multilink Automix “Easy” shade syringe, as well as the Primers, Monobond-S, and mixing tips, also are available separately.

ABOUT IVOCLAR VIVADENT At Ivoclar Vivadent, vision, passion, and innovation are the driving forces behind the company’s customer-centered products—such as Multilink® Automix resin cement, BlueLine Esthetic Denture Teeth, and the Odyssey® Navigator diode laser—and its leadership status within the dental industry. For nearly 100 years, Ivoclar Vivadent has been uniquely positioned to respond to the needs of both clinicians and laboratory professionals by providing beautiful and functional prosthetics, preventive materials, and direct restoratives, among other innovative technologies. The company develops, manufactures, delivers, and supports the quality products that dental professionals worldwide have come to know and trust, remaining steadfast in its commitment to offer only sensible and clinically proven options to meet today’s esthetic restorative demands.

The company’s most noteworthy products includes IPS Empress®, the world’s leading all-ceramic brand that ushered in the Esthetic Revolution™ in the 1990s, and IPS e.max®, a singular restorative system that harnesses the opportunities available to dental professionals today through Esthetic Digital Dentistrysm.

For more information, call 1-800-533-6825 in the U.S., 1-800-263-8182 in Canada.