Porcelain Crowns

A traditional dental crown can solve a host of problems, from lost fillings and root canals to cracking or fracturing of the tooth.

Porcelain crowns, available to all our Melbourne dental patients are similar to porcelain veneers; however, crowns cover the entire tooth so that they can provide structural support to the damaged tooth.

Porcelain crowns can also be used to cover decayed teeth, and even ones that are simply not aesthetically pleasing due to discoloration.

Peter will make an initial impression of your teeth, and tailor the crown to fit the exact dimensions of the damaged tooth. They will then fashion the porcelain crown to match the color of the rest of your teeth. To achieve this, we work with only the best dental labs in Melbourne, which provide custom shading for your teeth.

Porcelain crowns have been known to last decades with proper care, and can even help with chewing or speaking problems that may have been caused by the damaged tooth.

Cerec Crowns

CEREC Is a new up to date CAD/CAM system which enables us to provide you with a full ceramic crown constructed, placed and completed in a single visit.

Once Peter determines that CEREC is the correct course of treatment for you, your visit will begin by preparing the tooth.  Any decay if present is removed, leaving as much of your healthy tooth as possible to support the CEREC restoration.  Next your dentist will use a specially designed electronic camera that makes a digital 3D model of your tooth. This process usually takes no more than two to three minutes.

The virtual restoration is then transferred into reality, again using CEREC.  A solid block of ceramic is inserted into the machine and automatically milled to exactly match this computer model.

The perfect restoration is completed and placed in your mouth with the whole process taking around two hours, of which one hour is spent watching the dentist work or sitting in the waiting room reading a magazine.

CEREC filling and crowns are natural looking, smooth, white and hard wearing, just like enamel surface of the rest of your teeth. The ceramic material is biocompatible and is not affected by hot or cold.

A number of different examples of actual CEREC crowns on molar teeth.