Cerec

I thought another tooth than the one that broke a couple of days was the target of today’s visit to the dentist but I was wrong. So the tooth probably felt it was about time it got a Cerec. A Cerec is sort of a filling/crown that is made from a ceramic block. The ceramic they use is almost identical in properties as the natural tooth and because of that it is extremely strong and will stay in my mouth for many decades.
The block of ceramic material is milled to the right shape in a mini robotic milling machine to the exact shape and size of the hole in my tooth. To define the shape of that hole the dentist took a picture with a special camera with 7 lenses. The computer then makes a 3-dimensional image of my tooth and the dentist forms the shape of the top of the filling on the computer screen, in a sort of 3-dimensional Photoshop application. It’s really easy (it’s done in one session with only one freezing), really fast (the whole procedure takes 2 hours) and very expensive (CAD $ 900).
Fortunately our dental insurance pays a part of that.