Teeth Whitening
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Cosmetic Teeth Whitening

This has to be the best cosmetic dental treatment available. A lighter and brighter smile without needing dentistry! Properly done, most people will achieve teeth 8-10 shades whiter or more.

Whitening Guide
CEREC
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CEREC

CEREC stands for CERamic REconstruction. It is an in-surgery CAD\CAM system that can make any laboratory dental restoration (crown\veneer\inlay) actually in the dentists surgery. It is without doubt that CEREC is the most advanced dental system in the world and all the longterm clinical tests and studies are showing teeth restored with CEREC are lasting as long as teeth restored with gold.

CEREC Guide
Gum Contouring
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Gum Contouring

Not everyone shows their gums when they smile, but if they do then having an even gumline along the top of the teeth is important for a natural smile. Gum contouring or gum sculpting as it is sometimes called, is a technique to reshape the gumline to give an even and balanced appearance.

Gums Guide
Implants
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Cosmetic Implants

Dental Implants are replacement tooth roots and are used to put back missing teeth. The implant is usually placed into the bone in the same position as the original tooth root.

Common Types

  • Bicon
  • Nobel Biocare
  • Straumann (ITI)
  • Ankylos
  • Astra
Implants
Crowns
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Cosmetic Crowns

Crowns (or caps) are where the whole tooth is completely covered, as compared to a veneer where only the front surface is covered. Crowns have been used in dentistry since the 1920’s although materials have changed significantly since then. Originally, crowns were made from gold but in the 1950’s it became possible to overlay gold with porcelain and so tooth coloured crowns were made with a gold base

Crowns
Cosmetic Veneers
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Cosmetic Veneers

Veneers are best though of as new tooth 'facings', which are bonded permanently to the front surface of the teeth.

Types

  • Ceramic
  • Cerec
  • Da Vinci
  • Mac
  • Lumineers
Veneers

Cerec

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Cerec

It is without doubt that CEREC is the most advanced dental system in the world and all the longterm clinical tests and studies are showing teeth restored with CEREC are lasting as long as teeth restored with gold.

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CEREC stands for CERamic REconstruction. It is an in-surgery CAD\CAM system that can make any laboratory dental restoration (crown\veneer\inlay) actually in the dentist’s surgery. It is without doubt that CEREC is the most advanced dental system in the world and all the longterm clinical tests and studies are showing teeth restored with CEREC are lasting as long as teeth restored with gold. In fact, there are now studies showing it is outlasting gold over 20+years.

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With CEREC, instead of the dentist taking impression moulds to make a crown, inlay or veneer, the tooth is simply scanned with a small camera and the crown, inlay or veneer is then perfectly milled out from a block of ceramic . Once milled, the restoration is then seamlessly bonded to the tooth.

There are many advantages to patients who’s dentist use CEREC. Not only do they get the best restoration for their tooth but the whole process is completed in just one appointment. The benefits of cerec are:-

Longlasting dental restoration (crown\inlay\veneer) that will look and feel like a natural tooth
No impressions moulds
Less natural tooth removed so less drilling
No second visit and no second anaesthetic
No temporaries to wear
Ceramic materials so no metal in your mouth.
Doesn’t cost any more than conventional lab made restorations

Also, many laboratories use the CEREC inLAB, which is the lab version of cerec. The lab will scan the impression mould taken by the dentist instead of the dentist scanning the tooth. Although the restoration will be the same as could have been made by a CEREC dentist, the patient won’t have the benefit of having the procedure completed in a single appointment.

Who uses CEREC?

Only dentists who have invested in the CEREC CAD\CAM system or laboratories who have CEREC inLab. The CEREC system is made by Sirona (formerly Siemens) in Germany and costs a lot of money for the dentist to buy. It also takes time to be trained to use. However, the dentist won’t have to pay a lab to make a restoration and so the overall cost to the patient is usually the same.

All the CEREC dentists contacted when making this site said they wouldn’t now practice dentistry without CEREC because of the quality of the dentistry they could now do. CEREC is far more accurate than impression moulds. Indeed, CEREC is such an incredible way to restore teeth that we have produced a site purely on CEREC.

What can be done with CEREC?

Quite simply, any procedure that the dentist would need to use a laboratory for such as a crown or veneer can be made with CEREC. Additionaly, CEREC can be used instead of placing a filling and there are many advantages to using CEREC instead of fillings. Not only do teeth restored with CEREC look and feel like a natural tooth, they are much stronger than filled teeth and will last much, much longer . (For details of research papers on CEREC visit our CEREC site wwwcerecqwertycouk)

Examples of teeth restored using the CEREC system look to the right hand column:-

Amalgam fillings replaced with CEREC ceramic inlays

CEREC Veneers

All top teeth restored with CEREC crowns

Finding a CEREC dentist.
This site has a list of CEREC dentists.



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Finding the right dentist can be tough. We have some advice on how to help you in your search.

Finding The Right Dentist

Procedure Overviews

A light summary on some of the most frequenly carried out procedures.

Cosmetic Treatment Overview

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