Sirona Dental Company has come up with a new way for your dentist to make crowns (caps) for you in just one appointment. Gone are the days of messy impressions and two weeks of wearing a temporary crown that doesn't look or feel very good. With modern CAD-CAM technology that has been adapted to the dental workplace, your dentist can now make you an all porcelain crown, with no black or allergenic metal, in just one sitting. With no need to come back for a second appointment for fitting and numbing, you can walk out with your beautiful new tooth that is ready to eat, chew and smile with right away.
Engineers and dentists in Germany have been working on the technology for quite some time and they have now perfected the technology to the point where nearly every crown and even large fillings can be made in just one visit. They have combined a specialized prismatic camera connected to a computer that digitally scans your tooth after the dentist has specially shaped it. Then the software designs a crown right there that will replace your tooth with all of a tooth's natural contours and size.
The computer then sends this design to a milling machine, located right in your dentist's office, which takes a solid block of porcelain and proceeds to mill out an exactly sized and shaped piece to fit your tooth. Like a jigsaw puzzle piece it is fitted to your tooth and then bonded into position. Since this porcelain is the most natural and life-like replacement for natural tooth structure, this computer designed and milled crown will actually strengthen your tooth and give you the longest possible length of service of any dental material ever devised.
Because the porcelain is bonded to the tooth, the dentist can save much more of your natural tooth structure than ever before. And since there is no ugly metal to hide, the crown does not have to be placed below the gumline to hide the edges. It is a virtual replica of the tooth that you were born with.
So anyone who says that dentistry hasn't changed much is in for a real suprise.
