How to get your crown the same day

We all know the procedure when it is time to get a crown or an onlay:

After the tooth is prepared, we take an impression with a tray.  This may need to be taken multiple times and sometimes requires separate molds of the opposing teeth. This can be overwhelming for some patients, especially those with an enhanced gag reflex.

Not a very comfortable procedure.

Then we make a temporary provisional to cover and protect the tooth. Most of us know how inconvenient that is for the next two weeks.

We send the impression to the dental lab. Two weeks later, the final crown or onlay is back, and we make a second appointment to seat it. Time off work or family, traffic, a new shot to numb the area, painstakingly removing the provisional cover and disinfecting the tooth once again.

Wouldn’t it be great if you could come in and have all this done the SAME DAY, without the discomfort and inconvenience of impressions and temporaries?

Dr. Sarkissian can now offer you exactly that! You come in for a procedure that requires any indirect porcelain restoration and leave the same day – all done. No gagging on the impression, no mess, no second shot, no temporaries dislodging.

All this is made possible by the CEREC scanner and milling machine. This is German technology at its finest. Its latest model makes it appear the 21st century has finally arrived. This combination of 3D scanning and milling allows Dr. Sarkissian to create biocompatible ceramic inlays, onlays, and crowns during your visit – all in one day.

The PRIMESCAN scanner digitally scans your teeth in 3D. The data collected is sent directly to sophisticated software that builds a digital 3D model of your jaw and teeth. This is then used to model the crown, onlay, inlay, or veneer with unmatched precision. Dr. Sarkissian adjusts the design on the computer screen to his liking, and once he has the exact digital model of the restoration, one click sends it to a CAD-CAM milling machine a few rooms away.

Your crown, inlay, onlay, or veneer is milled from a block of suitable biocompatible ceramic (including Zirconia) on one of our two latest milling units, right in front of your eyes. After some polishing and glazing, Dr. Sarkissian will be ready to bond it to your tooth within 45 minutes. Because this process is so precise, hardly any adjustments will be necessary.

If you are in the greater Los Angeles area, you should not miss this experience. You can find Dr. Sakissian’s contact information here…