What a Zirconia Disc Should Cost Your Lab, and What Cheap Actually Costs
By HiZir LLC · October 15, 2026
Zirconia disc pricing is unusually opaque for a commodity. Published prices for standard blanks range from under twenty dollars to well over a hundred, and a large share of suppliers publish nothing at all. Here is what actually moves the number.
The five things you are paying for
Yttria content and grade. A 5Y high-translucency material and a 3Y high-strength one are different formulations with different input costs.
Layering. A genuinely graded multilayer blank (colour, translucency and strength varying through the height) costs more to make than a monolithic one or a colour-only "multilayer."
Thickness. This is the largest single driver, and it is why a per-disc price without a thickness attached is meaningless. 3D PRO runs $47 for a 10 mm disc to $76 for 25 mm, same material throughout.
Certification. ISO 13356 manufactures an IdentCeram certificate with the batch, FDA-listed status: this is real cost, and it is the first thing removed from a disc built to hit a price.
Where it ships from and who answers the phone. A disc sitting in a U.S. warehouse costs more to hold than one that ships when you order it. That cost buys you a delivery date you can promise a dentist.
Per disc is the wrong unit
The number that matters is cost per delivered unit, and it takes three things the sticker price does not show:
- Units per disc. Thickness and nesting decide this. A disc that is thirty percent cheaper and yields thirty percent fewer usable units saved you nothing.
- Remake rate. One remade anterior crown (chair time, lab time, shipping, the relationship) costs more than the price gap across a whole box of discs.
- Consistency between batches. If the shade shifts from one box to the next, the cost surfaces as staining time on every case, and it never appears on an invoice.
A disc twenty dollars cheaper that costs you one remake a quarter is not cheaper.
What we charge, and where to see it
Our 3D PRO multilayer discs are priced per thickness on the product page:
| Thickness | Price |
|---|---|
| 10 mm | $47 |
| 12 mm | $50 |
| 14 mm | $53 |
| 16 mm | $56 |
| 18 mm | $60 |
| 20 mm | $63 |
| 22 mm | $70 |
| 25 mm | $76 |
Same price across every 3D PRO shade. Each is 98 mm, 650–1100 MPa, 42–49% translucency, ISO 13356, ships with its IdentCeram certificate, and leaves our Florida warehouse the same business day when ordered before 12:00 PM ET.
That table is 3D PRO specifically. The other two series are priced per thickness the same way: ST multilayer from $43 and HT White from $23, each on its own product page. Like for like, ST runs a few dollars under 3D PRO at the same thickness: the graded blank carries a small premium for the gradient, and when a case does not need the gradient, ST is the value pick.
We publish all of it because a lab planning a month of production should not have to open a quote thread to find out what a disc costs.
The terms move the math as much as the sticker
One policy worth pricing in: there is no minimum order. One disc is an order, so trying a shade does not mean committing to a box.
Buying in volume
The price does not change with quantity. A standing order is priced per disc exactly like a single disc, so there is nothing to negotiate before you start.
The only comparison that means anything
Take the two or three discs you are considering, mill the same case on each, and count usable units. Then compare. We will send U.S. labs a free 3D PRO disc so ours can be one of them.