One visit fillings and crowns with CEREC

Using up to date CAD/CAM Cerec system we can restore you teeth to a natural look with a single visit.
New technologies are making our lives simpler and easier everyday and dentistry has certainly not been left behind. Thanks to a great new system called CEREC, you can now have a high tech smile in a single visit.

In days gone by, you may have needed to visit the dentist two to three times to have a quality, white ceramic restoration. The dentist would need to take a special impression to make a plaster model for the dental laboratory to generate an exact replica of your tooth in order to hand make your ceramic restoration. The craftsmanship of the laboratory technician is highly regarded, but generally requires a turn-around of three weeks, leaving you to function with a temporary, generally plastic, crown.

CEREC, on the other hand, uses that latest Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD-CAM) techniques to give you perfect white fillings, veneers or crowns, all in a single visit.

 

Here’s how it works

 

Once your dentist determines that CEREC is the correct course of treatment, 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 minutes.

You can watch your dentist design your new restoration on a computer screen, in the surgery, using the 3D image created by the camera. The virtual filling 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 fit restoration is completed and placed in your mouth with the whole process taking only around two hours, of which one hour is spent watching the dentist work or sitting in the waiting room reading a magazine! CEREC fillings and crowns are natural looking, smooth, white and hard-wearing, just like the enamel surface of the rest of your teeth. The ceramic material is biocompatible and is not affected by hot or cold.

Ask the dentist for more details about CEREC or make an appointment for a check-up today.

Before and after: Severely broken down lower right first molar tooth restored with a fill CEREC crown.

 

Before and after: CEREC restorations look and feel better than composite (back molar tooth), gold (first molar tooth), and amalgam (pre­molar tooth), and can be completed in a single appointment.