Gardia direct offers significant advantages in aesthetics, polish ability, wear resistance and fracture toughness. Designed to be the best enamel replacement ever, gardia direct has tooth-like color reflection, absorption and life-like optical properties including: brightness, translucency and warmth. Gardia direct provides outstanding aesthetics without sacrificing strength, durability and longevity. Very durable; exceptionally resistant to occlusal wear, yet kind to opposing dentition. Advantages: - Exceptional color stability before and after light-curing. - Can be cured using a quartz halogen curing light, a plasma arc curing light or LED (Light Emitting Diode) Light. - Single shade simplicity. - Plenty of working time, even in strong ambient light. - Not sticky, so it shapes and sculpts easily; material can be add or removed with an artist’s brush. - Low modulus of elasticity permits exceptional resistancy to bending and cracking caused by occlusal forces.