CEREC CAD/CAM dentistry designs and manufactures your restoration while you are in the chair. Crowns, veneers, inlays and onlays are scanned, milled and bonded in a single visit — no impression trays, no temporary, no second appointment.
How does a one-visit crown actually work?
- The tooth is prepared and scanned with a handheld CEREC Omnicam — a high-speed optical camera accurate to within about five microns. No impression putty.
- The scan becomes a 3D file of your jaw, and the restoration is designed on screen against your existing dental anatomy.
- The design goes to our CEREC MC XL or Sirona X5 mill, which carves it from a ceramic block.
- It is fitted, characterized, glazed and bonded — that day.
Why does this matter?
With a conventional crown you wear a temporary for weeks while an outside lab fabricates the real one, and temporaries come loose at inconvenient moments. A CEREC restoration is bonded right away. For elderly patients, patients with mobility difficulties, and anyone who cannot keep taking time off work, removing that second and third appointment is the whole point.
What can be made this way?
Crowns, veneers, inlays, onlays, and implant restorations — including crowns placed over a tooth after root canal treatment, where the tooth needs the protection of full coverage.
Who designs and mills the restoration?
Our own technicians, in our own laboratory, in this building. Digital Dental Designs is one of very few in-house dental labs in a US private practice. Nothing is shipped out, nothing waits in a courier queue, and if something needs adjusting the technician is down the hall.
Ask about a one-visit restoration
Eastchester (914) 268-0020 · Bronx (718) 597-6500
Related: cosmetic dentistry, root canal treatment (which usually needs a crown afterwards), and implant restorations.