The IPS e.max ZirCAD framework material is the high-strength
component of your restoration and must be given a design that
supports the overall shape of the restoration and the cusps.
The excess in available space (severely prepared teeth, atrophied
alveolar ridge) must be compensated by
corresponding framework dimensions and not by the pressed material.
If possible, the connector design should be extended in the vertical direction,
rather than in the horizontal direction.
Since the necessary connector dimensions cannot always be established in the
sagittal (lingo-vestibular) directions, the connector dimensions should always be
expanded in the vertical (inciso-cervical) direction.
A reduction in framework thickness always means a reduction in strength.
The parameters stored in the respective software are considered guidelines and
have to be adjusted according to the total thickness of the restoration using the
available software tools.
