IreSCD " members provide the highest quality care using state-of-the-art techniques and materials, who uses a Chairside Computer to construct modern ceramic restorations in a single visit. "
Digital images of your teeth are taken to enable the dentist to create a virtual model of your teeth. Then the dentist can design your restoration, whether it is a filling, a crown or veneer to fit to our remaining tooth structure. The same techniques can even be used to build completely new teeth combining the new crown with dental implants. By refining the computer image to account for the subtleties of blending with the surrounding and opposing teeth the dentist can design the ideal restoration.
This virtual restoration is then turned into reality using specially developed porcelains of varied colours to match seamlessly with your natural teeth.
Using Cad Cam ( computer aided design – computer aided manufacture ) technology this virtual computer generated crown is then “milled” or cut with an accuracy of upto 50 microns ( less than the width of a human hair ) withing 10 minutes.
Then the new restoration is bonded to the remaining natural tooth structure, sealing the sensitive dentine and re-establishing the shape, function and integrity of the tooth with a 95% prognosis for success over 15 years independent of the size of the filling.
With a variety of porcelain materials of diferent physical and
optical properties, your dentist can select the best for you for back
teeth or front teeth.
They can characterise the colour and surface texture to mimic the appearance of natural teeth.
They can alter the design to support the gum tissue optimally.
They usually complete the restoration in one visit.
The restoration is etched and bonded to the remaining tooth structure with a fit of upto 45 microns.
The cement is the same colour as the tooth and this gives a "chameleon effect" or "contact lens" junction that you cannot see.
The restoration is "see through" to x rays, so the dentist can monitor the tooth underneath at recall visits.