Dental Crowns done in single visit-Anyone done this?!

Dental Crowns done in single visit-Anyone done this?

I am very interested in the new 1 step crown process done by some dentist. I hate living with a temporary for 2 weeks-especially when they come off!! Anyone that has done the 1 step crown please tell me of your experience and how much it cost. Thanks!!

Yes I just graduated dental school and I had a couple of patients that we used this process on. It is called a Cerac machine. After your tooth is prepped, instead of taking an impression, a scanner is used to take an image of your tooth. It is sent to the computer which digitally constructs a crown for your tooth which can be modified by the dentist to make sure it will be right. After that is selected, the data is sent to a machine that mills your new crown out of a block of porcelain. This process takes about 45 minutes. I would recommend only getting these types of crowns for you back teeth. They only have three different colors of porcelain, (unless the new model has more) which would mean that is very unlikely that the color would match up with your teeth in the front where you can tell. I'm not sure about the cost, but it should be around the regular crown price. Hope this helps.