Cerec

All In One Visit With Cerec

Thanks to a great new system called CEREC, you can now have a high-tech smile in a single visit.

Usually it would take up to two weeks to send your crown to a laboratory technician, leaving you to function with a temporary crown.

CEREC, instead, uses the latest Computer-Aided Design and Manufacture (CAD-CAM) techniques to give you perfect, white fillings, veneers or crowns, all in a single visit.

What are the advantages of Cerec?

How is it done?

Your dentist will start by removing

all traces of the old filling as well as

any tooth decay that might be present.

Then the CEREC 3D camera is placed

in your mouth and a digital image or

"impression" is taken. CEREC now

makes a computer model of your

Your dentist then uses the

advanced high tech Computer

Aided Design (CAD) features

of CEREC to design exactly how

Once your restoration is designed on

the CEREC computer, a solid block of

porcelain ceramic is placed in the CEREC

milling unit. Information is sent from

the computer to the milling machine.

Special tools then sculpt your restoration

to the finest detail based on the

Clinical Studies

Knowledge that boosts your confidence

Still sceptical? Admittedly, CEREC sometimes sounds too good to be true. But on the contrary, CEREC is very much a practical reality. And to prove this pont, we refer you to more than 250 scientific studies into the efficacy, biocompatibility and longevity of CEREC restoration. 

You can place your trust in the expertise of renowned university professors and committed dental practitioners with CEREC.

CEREC ranks as one of the most intensively scrutinized dental procedures - as evidenced in numerous clinical studies and a wide range of scientific publications. The facts speak for themselves. After 18 years, 84.4% of the CEREC chairside inlays and onlays are intact and functioning. In cases where the inlays and onlays were adhesively bonded, the success rate is between 90 and 95% after 10 years.

The most important of findings at a glance:

• Fact: There are more than 20000 CEREC users worldwide,
• Fact: There are more than 600 CEREC users in Australia and New Zealand
• Fact: After ten years, CEREC inlays and onlays achieve a survival rate of 90-95%
• Fact: After five years, CEREC crown have a survival rate of 95-97%
• Fact: After nine years, CEREC Veneers display an impressive survival reate of 94%

The facts are all in favour of CEREC:

• An eighteen year study of 1011 inlays/onlays concluded as follows: "CEREC restoration (including those of larger size) display outstanding longevity. In many cases, defect-oriented restoration are careful adhesive bonding provide the basis for dispensing with full crowns."
• A study of longevity and production cost concluded as follows: "From a medical and economic viewpoint, CEREC inlays are preferable to all other inlay types.
• The ten year survival rate for Gold - occlusal inlays 76.1%, MO inlays 88.3%, DO inlays 87.5%, Partial Crowns 86.1% all retorations 85.7% (in a 30 year study, 3518 cast gold restoration).
• The probability of survival for 7 years was 81% for IPS Empress posterior partial ceramic crown.
• The anual failure rates for composite inlays is 11.8%.