Cerec Ceramic Crowns

High performance cad cam materials tailored to our design software and our cerec milling and grinding units including zirconia feldspar ceramics and sintered metals.

Cerec ceramic crowns.

Cerec same day crowns offer our patients a number of advantages including. They are trending these days thanks to cad cam technology which dentists have embraced. Such crowns are often popular due to their affordability. However the crown aesthetics are largely down to the dentist s skill experience and attention to detail.

Cerec same day crowns are trending these days due to cad cam technology. They are considerably more expensive than composite. Using cerec s state of the art cad cam computer aided design computer aided manufacturing technology our dentist dr. James powell can create your crown from e max porcelain.

They are also called as chair side crowns or cerec crowns. Cerec stands for chairside. But if taken care of they may last much longer. Cerec crowns look feel like a real tooth.

However the dentist. Conventional crowns also known as caps fully cover the visible portion of the tooth. Because the dental lab is not involved the dentist will have to spend time to stain and glaze the porcelain. Aesthetically there s no other type of crown that can compete with a cerec crown.

You will likely spend less on traditional crowns than the cerec variety. Cad stands for computer aided designing and cam stands for computer aided manufacturing. They can last on average 10 15 years. The two most common materials used for crowns are e max and zirconia.

Single day crowns are made of ceramic. This technology is perfected over three decades. These cerec crowns are milled out of pure ceramic. Traditional crowns can consist of different types of materials like ceramic metal resin and porcelain.

Generally cerec crowns are less aesthetic than other all ceramic crowns but more aesthetic than porcelain fused to metal crowns. With cerec s cad cam technology the crown is made by a computer while you wait thus eliminating the second appointment and the temporary crown. Creation of ceramic crown using our milling unit ensures accuracy precision. Patients no longer need to wait weeks as their digital scans and x rays are sent off to a lab to have their crowns created.

A popular choice is the cerec crown which is often made out of a very strong ceramic and is designed created and installed using computer assisted technology.