Same Day Crowns With CEREC Technology

Dental crowns often play an integral role in preserving natural teeth and helping patients maintain good oral health while also creating beautiful smiles. Whether you need a dental crown to save a compromised tooth or to improve the look of your smile, Dr. Sinclair simplifies and expedites the treatment process with state-of-the-art same-day CEREC technology.  

What Is a Dental Crown?

A dental crown is a hollow, tooth-shaped dental restoration. Dental crowns are made of natural-looking, tooth-colored porcelain and are designed to fit over the entire portion of a natural tooth that is exposed above the gum line.  

The Purpose of a Dental Crown: Why You Might Need a Dental Crown

Restorative Treatment

Dental crowns seal, protect, and support the structure of a natural tooth to help avoid the need for tooth extraction when a tooth has been compromised due to injury, decay, disease, excessive wear, or age. Dental crowns help to prevent the interior of the tooth from becoming infected. They can also support a tooth following a root canal procedure.  

Cosmetic Treatment

In addition to restorative treatments, dental crowns also offer cosmetic benefits. For example, they can be used to brighten smiles, cover up permanent stains or discoloration, improve the symmetry and balance of a smile, correct the size or shape of an irregular-looking tooth, fill in gaps between teeth, or hide other imperfections.  

How Same-Day CEREC Crowns Are Different

The traditional dental crown treatment process used to involve multiple appointments, required the use of sticky manual dental impressions, and required patients to wear a plastic temporary crown while waiting for an external dental laboratory to manufacture their permanent dental restoration.  

The CEREC Difference

Thanks to same-day CEREC (chairside restoration of esthetic ceramic) technology, our dental crown treatment process looks much different. CEREC technology uses computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing technology to design and create custom, high-quality dental crowns right inside our office during a single appointment.

We begin by preparing the patient's tooth for a dental crown. We then collect digital dental impressions using a three-dimensional intraoral scanner. These images are uploaded into powerful design software where we design a custom dental crown that will look natural and complement the patient's smile. Our in-office precision milling machine then manufactures the dental crown and we place it for a perfect, long-lasting fit.  

The Benefits of Same-Day CEREC Dental Crowns

• Convenience - The ease, speed, and convenience of treatment with same-day crowns is the primary benefit. Patients only need to visit our office for a single appointment which means our patients save time and money while avoiding the headache of rearranging a busy schedule to visit the dental office more than once.  

• No Messy Dental Impressions - Digital technology uses a digital imaging, intraoral scanner to collect three-dimension "impressions" of a patient's teeth. As a result, the need for taking messy dental impressions using puddy and trays is rendered completely obsolete.  

• No Temporary Crown - Since same-day CEREC crowns are designed, milled, and placed in a single dental visit, there's no need for patients to wear generic, ill-fitting, plastic temporary crowns while waiting for a permanent crown to be created.

• Beautiful Design - We use powerful design software to create a 100% custom dental crown that looks natural, blends in with neighboring teeth, and improves the appearance of your smile.

• Comfortable Fit - With a completely custom design, same-day crowns fit perfectly, feel natural, and allow for in-office adjustments to ensure a completely comfortable result.  

• Natural Look - High-quality, tooth-colored ceramic creates a seamlessly natural look that is very similar to natural tooth enamel.  

• No Surprises - With digital design software, a patient can better visualize the final results of a treatment plan.

• Discreet Treatment - In and out of our office with your treatment completed in a single appointment, there is no need for anyone to know you were visiting the dentist for anything other than a routine dental appointment.  

Beautiful Dental Crowns in a Single Visit to Our Encinitas Dental Clinic

Whether you need a restorative treatment to support the health of a natural tooth or want to create a beautiful smile with a dental crown, Dr. Sinclair can help you achieve your smile goals in a single visit with same-day crowns using CEREC technology. To learn more about how we pair the latest in technology with personalized treatment plans designed to achieve exceptional treatment outcomes or to request an appointment for same-day CEREC, we welcome you to contact our dental office in Encinitas today.