If you’re like most people in Toms River, you welcome convenience in every aspect of life. In other words, straightforward processes with minimal disruption to your schedule. Rotem Dental Care offers fast and effective crowns to our valued patients.
Multiple Appointments Can Be a Hassle
When it comes to medical or dental treatments, convenience means the fewest visits possible. Hopefully, only be one visit.
Let’s consider dental crowns, for example. Most individuals need a restoration like a dental crown at some point in their life. A dental crown is one of the most versatile dental restorations. It covers the whole visible portion of a tooth and can repair a weakened tooth, a tooth with a large cavity, or a tooth that has undergone a root canal. A strong, natural-looking crown protects the remaining tooth and functions like a natural tooth
Dental Crowns Used to Take at Least Two Appointments
The traditional dental crown procedure involves at least two visits. (Sometimes three or four depending on the situation.) On the first visit, the dentist would prepare the tooth and create an impression for the crown. To make impressions, the patient had to bite into a U-shaped tray filled with a thick, gooey substance (alginate or polyvinylsiloxane).
Then the dentist would send the impression to a dental lab to have the crown constructed. This could take a couple weeks. When the crown was finished, the patient would have to come back to the dental practice to have it placed and cemented.
CEREC and E4D Same Day Crowns
Now, there are two appointment systems. The brand names are CEREC and E4D. Both systems use CAD (Computer Aided Design) and CAM (Computer Aided Manufacturing) to design and fabricate a perfectly fitting crown.
CAD uses 3-D software that photographs teeth to create a precise model. In some dental practices, the patient can see the 3-D digital renderings on a screen during their visit.
CEREC uses an infrared camera to transmit the tooth’s exact shape to the CAD software. E4D accomplishes the same thing with laser technology. As mentioned previously, CAD is the modeling software. Once there is a precise 3-D digital scan, it’s time to actually create the restoration. That is what the CAM machine does. CAM is the milling process, in which a small bit-like device powers at extremely high speeds to carve a custom-fitting crown out of a small brick of ceramic.
6 Steps For a One-Visit Dental Crown
Here is a recap of the entire same-day dental crown operation:
- Tooth Preparation. Your dentist will prepare the site for your crown by clearing away tooth decay or portions of the damaged tooth.
- Intraoral Scanning. Next, your dental professional will use an optical scanner to create a 3-D digital rendering of the damaged tooth and surrounding teeth.
- Restoration Design. With the 3-D images, the dentist will use the CAD software to design the final restoration.
- Milling. A milling machine uses the 3-D scan and precisely carves the crown from a single small brick of ceramic.
- Sintering and Polishing. The dentist then stains or glazes to make the surface of the dental crown look like a natural tooth. Following that, the dentist polishes the restoration to perfection.
- Cementation. Finally, the restoration is permanently placed in your mouth. (Colgate.com)
Did we mention that this occurs in one appointment?
Need a dental crown? Call us today to request an appointment.
Contact Rotem Dental Care:
732-341-8500
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355 Lakehurst Rd
Toms River, New Jersey
08755
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