For better or worse, people are busier than ever these days. At Hill Avenue Dental, our team is made up of moms, dads, and busy professionals dedicated to our work — so we understand that it can be difficult to make time to visit the dentist. But the truth is, you just can’t afford to put off necessary dental care. Waiting to seek attention for an aching, damaged tooth just requires more expensive, time consuming care later on. The next time you need a dental crown, you can benefit from CEREC in Superior WI.
Comparing Traditional, Same Day Crowns
You may need a dental crown for holding together parts of a broken tooth, restoring a severely decayed tooth, or for giving the strength back to a weak or worn tooth. Whatever caused your pain, a crown can save your tooth from extraction.
When you come into the office for your dental crown, we’ll begin by examining the extent of your decay and put together a treatment plan for restoring your tooth back to its original health. After administering local anesthesia, your dentist begins by removing all the decay from your infected tooth. Your tooth is then reshaped to make room for the new crown. Don’t worry — you won’t feel a thing throughout this process.
With traditional crowns, this is the point in the process when you’d leave the office and have a follow up appointment scheduled for the placement of your new crown. You would wear a temporary crown in the time between appointments. Unfortunately, temporary crowns aren’t customizable to blend with the rest of your smile — and they are prone to breaking, too.
Thanks to CEREC, or chairside economic reconstruction of esthetic ceramics, your dentist in Superior WI can prepare your tooth, manufacture the crown, and restore your tooth all in the same visit. That means there’s no time spent waiting for your crown, no need for a temporary, and one day of sick leave or vacation time saved.
How CEREC Works
Here’s how CEREC works. Once your tooth has been reshaped, your dentist takes digital impressions and chooses the shade that will match your surrounding teeth. This information is entered into the in-house milling machine, which builds your new crown from a single piece of porcelain in under 30 minutes. It’s a wonderful application of CAD/CAM (computer aided design, computer aided manufacture) technology.
Patients who have undergone same-day dentistry greatly appreciate its benefits. Some of the most significant advantages that you’ll notice with CEREC crowns include…
- Less time spent at the dentist’s office
- Digital impressions are more comfortable
- No need for a temporary crown between appointments
- Same-day crowns last just as long as traditional ones
Those are the benefits you notice — and on our end, digital impressions greatly improve our treatment planning. This method of reproducing your teeth and oral structures is far more accurate than traditional impressions, which allows your dentist to create the perfect crown. It’s one that fits, looks, and feels just like it should.
Got Time for Same Day Dentistry?
Of course you do — especially when your oral health is on the line. If a dental crown is what your tooth needs following decay, damage, or injury, your dentist in Superior WI can restore your smile health in just one visit to our office. Schedule an appointment at Hill Avenue Dental today! We can’t wait to help you smile better, faster.