If you are getting a lot of dental work done, you may here the term Cerec around quite a bit, but what is it and what does it do? Cerec is a dental restoration product that helps dentists to produce ceramic dental restoration using computers and computer technology to help it.

The best thing about Cerec is that restoring a tooth can be performed in a single sitting with a patient because the cavity is photographed and stored as a three dimentional digital model. A special software is used to figure out the approximate restoration shape using biogeneric comparisons to the teeth that surround the tooth that needs to be restored. Once the dental practitioner refines the model, a milling machine carves the restoration out of a ceramic block using diamond cutters and driven by the computer. When it is carved, the dentist can bond it to the tooth using resin, making restoring teeth quick and easy.

So how do you explain it in easy English? A computer takes a picture of your tooth and makes the restoration while you wait so that you don’t have to make multiple trips to the dentist! Its as simple as that! Ask your dentist about using Cerec for your next tooth restoration!