The Cerec System from Ceramic Systems uses a digital impressioning technique to enable dentists to create sophisticated chairside all-ceramic restorations. Saving laboratory costs, it enables dentists to design and create all-ceramic inlays, onlays, partial crowns, veneers and crowns for the anterior, premolar and molar regions in one visit.
Eliminating the need for impressions, it captures the data via a digital impression which is then milled from a solid block in the milling unit via a wireless connection. The milling unit can be situated anywhere that is convenient within the practice, even as a fascinating eye-catcher in the waiting room.
Combined with adhesive bonding techniques, Cerec creates biocompatible, non-metallic, natural-looking restorations from durable high-quality ceramic materials in a single treatment session - without the need for provisional restorations.
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Digital impressioning. Br Dent J 205, 679 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.1104
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.bdj.2008.1104