In just one appointment, you can have a naturally beautiful restoration to enhance the beauty and function of your smile. With same-day crowns, there is no need for multiple office visits, messy dental impressions, a temporary crown, or waiting weeks for your dental work to come back from the laboratory. Your new restoration gets designed and customized to the exact specifications of your smile, all on the very same day!
How does it work?
Same-day crowns utilize advanced CAD/CAM technology or computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacturing to make every step of your treatment more efficient, patient-friendly, and precise.
Using an ergonomically designed intraoral scanning wand in place of a conventional dental impression, the dentist can capture detailed 3D images of the prepared tooth and its surrounding dentition. These images get immediately integrated by an advanced computer software program to produce a virtual model and plan a precise, functional, and cosmetically pleasing restoration. Once the design specifics get approved by the dentist, the information gets wirelessly transmitted to a chairside milling machine, where your new ceramic crown is fabricated while you wait!.
Naturally beautiful and long-lasting Restorations!
This technology offers much more than a convenient approach to getting a dental crown. A same-day crown provides a high-quality, naturally beautiful, extremely durable, and long-lasting dental restoration!
Digital radiography utilizes computer technology and digital sensors for the acquisition, viewing, storage, and sharing of radiographic images. It offers several advantages over the older traditional film based methods of taking x-rays. The most significant of these advantages is that digital radiography reduces a patient’s exposure to radiation. Other benefits are that images can be viewed instantly after being taken, can be seen simultaneously as needed by multiple practitioners, and can be easily shared with other offices. Digital x-rays are also safer for the environment as they do not require any chemicals or paper to develop.
An electronic pad, known as a sensor is used instead of film to acquire a digital image. After the image is taken, it goes directly into the patient’s file on the computer. Once it is stored on the computer, it can be easily viewed on a screen, shared, or printed out.
An intraoral camera is a miniaturized camera that can take high-resolution images inside of the mouth and display them for viewing in real time on a computer screen. It is a pen-sized device that provides an up close, full-color and high-resolution view of the teeth and surrounding soft tissues.
An intraoral camera is a wonderful communication tool that allows the dentist to directly show a patient a close up view of every tooth and the nearby soft tissues. With this technology any areas of concern can be instantly displayed and discussed.
The intraoral camera can also capture individual images that can be saved as part of a patient’s permanent record. These saved images can be reproduced when needed for use by other dental specialists, a dental laboratory, insurance companies, and others.
One of the significant advances in modern dentistry has been the development of dental laser technology. Today, dental lasers are being increasingly used to treat tooth decay, periodontal disease, perform biopsies or the removal of oral lesions, to cure restorative (filling) materials, as well as to activate in-office teeth whitening systems.
Dental lasers combine laser energy with water and air to safely cut and shape target soft or hard tissues in the mouth. Laser energy precisely cuts through tooth structure by exciting the water molecules in the tooth. It operates without direct contact to the tooth without heat, vibration, or pressure thereby minimizing the discomfort of the procedure and the need for dental anesthesia. In addition dental lasers can reduce anxiety for patients fearful of dental work, minimize post-operative bleeding and swelling, and preserve healthy tooth structure during the removal of decay.
At the office of Iconic Dental Arts, we use the latest technology to provide our patients with the most precise and gentle care. We firmly believe that achieving successful treatment outcomes relies on using the most advanced diagnostic technology. By obtaining high-resolution and detailed 3D images, we can develop the right treatment plan and provide the highest level of care.
As a state-of-the-art practice, we utilize one of the most advanced CBCT (cone-beam computed tomography) imaging systems to obtain the sharpest 3D diagnostic films while exposing the patient to the lowest level of radiation.
