Modern dentistry has come a long way to provide quality care with utmost precision and patient compliance. With busy schedules, people may refrain from considering the dental care that they deserve. To overcome these challenges, modern dentistry has invented same-day crowns, also known as CEREC crowns. 

Hollywood, Florida dentist, and their team provide same-day crowns with utmost precision to reform the tooth in terms of structure and aesthetics. 

A comprehensive guide to same-day or CEREC crowns

CEREC (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramic) is an advanced technology that creates tooth-colored crowns in a single visit. Popularly known as CEREC restorations, same-day crowns are tooth-shaped caps that completely engulf the tooth that is damaged due to dental decay or trauma.  

These affordable crowns are fabricated on the same day using a CEREC system that comprises a computer-aided design and manufacturing unit (CAD/CAM). 

Potential benefits of same-day or CEREC crowns 

Same-day, or CEREC crowns, are gaining immense popularity owing to a wide range of benefits offered. They:

• Are designed and created on the same day
• Are aesthetic restorations and easily blend with the natural teeth
• Are time-saving restorations
• Are highly affordable since they cut down the number of dental visits 
• Can restore your oral function immediately
• Require less drilling, thus preserving most of the tooth structure 
• Do not require tedious procedures like messy impressions since they are digitalized
• Provide a perfect fit 
• Are sturdy and stain and abrasion-resistant 
• Are long-lasting (around 10 to 15 years)

The procedure involved in the fabrication of same-day or CEREC crowns

Same-day crowns are easily fabricated in a single visit through the following steps: 

• Tooth isolation using a rubber dam to prevent excess moisture around the affected tooth.
• Tooth preparation to remove a small amount of enamel layer
• Capturing digital images of the occlusion and teeth using an intraoral scanner
• Digitally creating a 3D model and transferring the data to the milling machine
• Placing a ceramic block into the milling unit.
• Fabricating a digital crown on the basis of the surrounding dentition using CAD/CAM technology. This may take 15 minutes. 
• Polishing and finishing the crown.
• Solidifying the crown in the ceramic oven for about 10 minutes.
• Checking the crown fit and making necessary adjustments. The entire procedure will be completed in just about 2 hours.

Takeaway  

Owing to busy schedules and extensive dental visits, same-day or CEREC crowns have revolutionized the face of modern dentistry. It helps you improve your oral health by restoring damaged or decayed teeth in just a single day.