IPS Empress® Direct

Effortless Wonders of Dental Aesthetics

IPS Empress Direct is a restorative composite material specifically designed for highly aesthetic fillings in both anterior (front) and posterior (back) teeth. It has been developed to meet the highest aesthetic expectations in dental treatments, allowing dental professionals to create beautiful, natural-looking restorations with ease.

This material gives you the freedom to express your creativity in dental aesthetics. If you have exceptionally high demands for aesthetics, IPS Empress Direct is the ideal choice.

Realistic Colors for Natural-Looking Restorations

• Specifically developed for the highest aesthetic standards in both anterior and posterior teeth.
• Offers a wide range of colors that closely mimic natural tooth shades.
• Available in five different opacity levels.
• Allows for the natural reproduction of various anatomical features, ensuring lifelike restorations.

A Long-Lasting Smile

• Over 44 million restorations have been performed worldwide using IPS Empress Direct [1].
• Provides excellent clinical performance.
• Ensures long-lasting aesthetic results, helping patients enjoy durable, beautiful smiles for years to come.

Easy Handling and Intuitive Application

• Features an intuitive color system that makes it easy to use.
• Retains its shape during sculpting and contouring, making it easy to work with.
• Adapts well to cavity walls, ensuring smooth application and precise restorations.
• Provides up to 300 seconds of working time, allowing for less stress and more precise adjustments during procedures [2].
• Can be quickly polished to a high gloss, offering a brilliant finish in a short amount of time.
• Has a radiopacity of up to 360% Al, making it easily visible on X-rays for proper post-operative evaluation.

Achieving Aesthetic Restorations in 5 Steps

With IPS Empress Direct, achieving long-lasting and aesthetic dental restorations is simple and efficient, thanks to its easy-to-follow 5-step process. This system streamlines the procedure, ensuring excellent results with minimal effort.

Intuitive Color System

The color system of IPS Empress Direct is designed to be intuitive. To recreate the natural structure of a tooth, dentin shades are used for the dentin layer, while enamel shades are applied to mimic the natural enamel. For the incisal edge (cutting surface), three different levels of translucency are available to replicate the natural play of light.

• Dentin materials possess natural opacity, influencing the overall tooth color.
• Enamel materials have higher translucency, allowing light to pass naturally through the dentin layer.
• Three transparent materials (Trans 20, Trans 30, and Trans Opal) are used to control light reflection and achieve natural-looking results.

Creating an Opalescent Effect

With the special Trans Opal material, you can create a realistic opalescent effect in just one step. This material exhibits a blue tint under reflected light and a reddish-orange appearance under transmitted light, just as seen in natural teeth. The effect adds a lifelike quality to restorations, giving patients a beautiful and natural smile.

The Trans Opal material is available in two forms: a flowable version (IPS Empress Direct Effect) and a sculptable composite (IPS Empress Direct).