CEREC Crowns – Same Day Crowns

Your Salt Lake City Dentists Specialize in CEREC Crowns

A Dental Crown is a restoration that is placed on teeth that have lost a lot of their structure. Entirely covering a damaged tooth, dental crowns are also known as a “cap.” There are various types of crowns, ranging from full porcelain to full metal. Your Salt Lake City dentists specialize in CEREC Same Day Crowns, which is short for Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics, or Ceramic Reconstruction. With using ceramic as the material used for your dental crown it allows the restoration procedure to completed in a single visit versus multiple appointments awaiting lab work.

Typically the process of making a Dental Crown includes a many steps, beginning with preparing and taking impressions of the tooth/teeth involved. A temporary Dental Crown or dental bridge is then placed. Meanwhile, impressions are sent to the lab so a mold of the teeth is poured and the work begins. The completed work is sent back to the office; after inspection and adjustments, it is cemented onto your teeth. However, with CEREC crowns impressions are taken through a digital scan to easily allow the design of the restoration done on the computer