Wayland Dental Blog

The traditional method of fabricating a crown involves a messy impression, a temporary plastic crown , and a second visit in about 2 weeks to place the final restoration.

Today, I have some very exciting technology to make permanent crowns in one visit. The process involves the use of the CEREC acquisition and milling unit. This incredible machine will scan the tooth and digitally create a three dimensional CAD-CAM model of your teeth. From this, I’m able to customize a perfectly fitting crown that’s milled from a block of reinforced porcelain. No need for a goopy impression, or temporary crown, and best of all: no need for a return visit in two weeks for the final fitting.

Not only will this machine make customized full crowns, it’s also capable of making partial crowns to reinforce teeth that don’t need to be completely covered. These restorations are called Onlays, and are a great method of protecting teeth while removing less tooth structure. Yet another use of the CEREC machine is to fit crowns to a dental implant. Once the implant heals and integrates with the supporting bone, I’m able to scan the area and fabricate a custom fit abutment and crown.

I’m proud to have the latest technology at Wayland Dental to help make your experience as pleasant and efficient as possible. This technology has over 25 years of proven clinical use and millions of CEREC restorations have been placed in that time. When the need arises to fix a tooth, my CEREC unit is a wonderful way to create the esthetics and durability as close to natural teeth as possible.

Believe it or not your friendly dental team at Wayland Dental has been at our beautiful new location for a full year now! No one would disagree that it is a significant improvement over our previous location, as cozy as it was. The entire staff has learned first hand that the environment in which you work in makes a huge difference in terms of personal satisfaction with your job. How fortunate we are to be able to treat our patients in such a pleasing and comfortable office! I feel like a new dentist, fresh out of dental school each day I walk through the front door.
It goes without saying that I owe a huge debt of gratitude to our wonderful patients who have supported us over the years. Having a practice full of health conscious and knowledgeable patients has been something that I am immensely proud of. Without your support, my dream of owning such an office would not have been possible. In recommending the people that you care about to us, it shows a great display of trust and I am humbled each week to see the number of new patients that you have referred to us for their dental care.
Future blogs will help you to learn about our office, the various procedures that we do here and general information about dental health. I hope that it serves you well and keeps you in touch with us here at Wayland Dental.

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