One-Visit Dental Crowns

Natural-Looking Crowns Made While You Wait

There are some treatments that can only be completed in stages. In the past, that was true with placing a crown. Your dentist would prepare the tooth, take an impression and give you a temporary crown. The impression would be sent to a lab and you would wait for two weeks to return to the dentist, where he would then secure the permanent crown. Sometimes the fit wouldn't be perfect. A new impression would then go back to the lab, and you would begin the process of waiting again.

But now, that's all changed. Our doctors can reduce that two-week waiting period and the two or three office visits down to just a single visit with our new CEREC™ technology! CEREC, a computer-aided design and milling device, allows us to create a permanent crown in just a few minutes. Now, there's no more waiting for the lab and no return trips to the dentist. Patients love it!

To create the restoration, we first use a special camera to take an accurate image of the tooth. This is downloaded onto a computer screen, enabling us to design the restoration. At this point, CEREC takes over and automatically creates the new crown. Finally, we bond the new crown to the surface of the old tooth.

Without impressions or temporaries, the CEREC system allows us to repair a damaged tooth in a matter of hours with a long-lasting, aesthetic alternative to silver or plastic fillings.

Advanced Dentistry of Spring   
Stephen D. Glass, DDS  
Thomas C. Miller, DDS 
7000 Louetta Road, Suite A
Spring, TX 77379
(281) 376-1214 
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