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Overview
Modern Dentistry has more materials and techniques available than ever
before. There are many choices available to create natural looking
smiles. Let us select the best material to restore your missing, worn,
damaged or decayed teeth. With new tooth-colored materials we can create
a beautiful natural smile.
We still have an appreciation for the usefulness of traditional
Dental materials; in some situations we choose gold for filling in back
teeth where great pressure is exerted on the surface.
What’s Right for Me?
With so many choices how do you know what’s right for you? The doctor
will advise you as to what’s available. Where and how the filling will
be placed and the chewing load that tooth will have to bear as well as
the length and number of visits needed.
Fortunately most of our crown
work can be done in house with the CEREC system making most processes
quick and painless.
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Direct? Indirect? What does it all mean?
Direct restorations are completed in a single visit
and like a 3-D puzzle piece are placed directly onto a
dental cavity. They are made of tooth-colored
composites. The tooth is prepared and the filling placed
and adjusted in one visit. They blend in and become part
of the tooth. With Ceric many crowns are now one -visit
procedures.
Indirect restorations generally require two visits;
they include inlays, onlays, veneers, crowns and bridges
fabricated with gold or base metal alloys. During the
first visit the Doc prepares the tooth and takes the
impressions of the area to be restored. Once the lab has
finished their magic we take the new tooth and cement it
onto the prepared cavity and make any adjustments
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