Consultants’ Comments
- “It is important to practice with the stone because it sets so quickly.”
Description
Snap-Stone is a fast-set stone highly recommended for fabricating custom trays for whitening, vacu-form temporaries, and study models. Snap-Stone is a high strength stone compatible with all types of impression materials. It is available in a pink color in envelopes, canisters, or cartons. Six laboratories and 11 consultants evaluated Snap-Stone over a six-month period. This product received a 92% clinical rating.
Product Features
Snap-Stone provides an accurate working model in 5 minutes and has an adequate early high compressive strength within 15 minutes. It has an extremely fast setting time and short working time (60-90 seconds). Snap-Stone performs well as an alternative to stones currently being used when a high-strength model is needed in a short period of time. The strength, surface quality and resistance to abrasion were all rated as excellent. The fast setting time was appreciated by all consultants. After learning to work with the material, all consultants felt that Snap-Stone would have a place in their daily dental practice. It is an invaluable material for study models and repair models, which benefit from not waiting for stone to set. A majority of consultants and laboratories stated that they would both purchase and recommend Snap-Stone.Editors’ Note: The original evaluation was published in THE DENTAL ADVISOR Plus, Vol. 7, No. 1, January-February 1997.
