Practicon 7085610 Cavex ColorChange Alginate, 500 Gram

Good quality

Bought this to make a cast of my upper teeth after I noticed a chip out of one of my molars. Works excellent! If you are new to using alginate for casting, there’s plenty of excellent information on YouTube for getting the alginate:water ratio right. This sets fast, maybe just over two minutes using ice cold water (sets faster with heat) but it sets strong, so small details don’t seem to get lost from it ripping apart. The color change upon setting is nice too, but ultimately was not essential for my use - this is probably of more value to busy dental techs. The hardest part for me was making plaster casts (retroactive pun?) from the mold without leaving bubbles in the plaster, even using thin plaster and mushing it around in the low spots. This is overall good stuff and I’m sure many other uses for it can be found in molding/crafting so long as one is aware that it will eventually dry out and lose shape. I give it two snaps up

For cool Art projects

So I read some of the reviews about this not being good and I disagree. The only reason I gave it a 4 and not 5 is because I was expecting to be able to roll it in my hand but I only mixed it in a tin bowl because I figure it would get all over my hands and it looks like its too lumpy but once its in a tray and on your teeth its fine, the lumps go away and it takes good molds but thats just my opinion and I havent had a bad mold where it set before I was ready to use so maybe people are not moving fast enough to get it to work for them….. i use 1 scoop of powder and 2 scoops of water by the way. I would recommend this to anyone needing impressions of their teeth.

Buenisimo

I learned how to make my own dentures, and this product really works well. It doesn't have a bad taste and congeals nicely. I have bought this product several times.

First, no measuring scoop for alginate or water. I found it near impossible to mix to a smooth consistency in 30 seconds. By the time loaded into tray and inserted for impression its almost set so not capturing the vital landmarks. They're not kidding about fast set. I'm not sure if this is made for an automatic lab mixer or what I'm doing wrong. 500g bag and not one usable impression.

I bought a kit to take my baby feet and hand molding and it was so hard to use and took too long to set, so I decided to buy just the alginate and it was much better. It came out so smooth and it set fast enought, that it was just what I need.

As described.

This is exactly what I was looking for and is exactly as described