CEREC - Single Visit
Porcelain Restorations
CEREC is used for crowns, inlays and onlays. Cerec restorations are used to
restore decayed,
broken or cracked teeth. Cerec metal-free crowns... The new metal-free
crowns eliminate the ugly black line you may have seen next to the gum line
on older crowns. Onlays are more conservative of tooth structure than full
crowns, and are used whenever possible. Inlays and Onlays are tooth-colored
restorations that are used in place of silver fillings on the chewing
surfaces of back teeth. This approach has become very popular. CEREC
technology is revolutionary to dentistry because it creates a beautiful,
esthetic, strong and durable ceramic
restoration that is precisely bonded to the tooth.
It is accomplished using a digital scan of the prepared tooth and creating
the restoration’s design using powerful 3D software that allows the dentist
to customize the result. The design is wirelessly transmitted to a special
milling device that will create your restoration using a dental ceramic.
Because this is usually done in one visit
you do not need to have a bulky, messy impression made of your tooth,
you do not need to wear a temporary crown and you do not need to come back
on a separate visit, often weeks away, to have your new crown placed.
Call our office to learn more.
Cone Beam CT
Scan
Drumright Dental Center uses the Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT)
scanner which is compact in size and the relatively low radiation dosage of
the CBCT scanner makes it ideally suited for imaging the craniofacial
region, including dental structures. Call our office or
click here to learn
more about the Cone Beam CT Scan.
Intra-Oral Camera
Drs. Melton and Burkett know that a picture is
worth a thousand words – especially in dentistry! They use small cameras
right inside your mouth to take highly magnified digital photos of your
teeth. These photos can be displayed on a computer screen for both patient
and doctor, and are invaluable in diagnosing and recording dental problems.
Intra-oral photos also enables patients to view what the dentist sees when
their teeth are being evaluated by the dentist.
Laser Cavity Detector (Diagnodent)
Locating hidden decay before it destroys tooth structure (from the
inside out) is a major goal. Finding cavities beneath the hard surfaces
is challenging because the disease process can start through microscopic
defects in the hard surface can spread into the softer tooth structure
beneath the surface.
Recently FDA approved, this amazing
laser cavity finder instantly and accurately finds cavities in areas
x-rays rarely see and the dental pick misses 76% of the time.
Diagnodent is a major breakthrough that allows us to monitor the areas below
the hard surfaces. We can now locate hidden decay, and with treatment stop
the spread of the disease before it destroys the tooth from within.
