Digital Dentistry

Digital dentistry is today's technology that enables direct digital impressions to be taken from the patient's mouth using computer support, followed by the preparation of restorations tailored to these impressions. The major advantage of these systems, both for patients and dentists, is that treatment can be completed in significantly less time, such as a single session, and that it is more aesthetic. Medistate Kavacık Hospital's Oral and Dental Clinic also carries out successful applications in the field of digital dentistry.

With globalization, technology and speed are increasingly becoming part of our lives. In this regard, dentistry is also becoming more digitalized day by day. This digitalization process enables us to provide faster and more comfortable treatments to our patients in a shorter time. Cerec is a ceramic structure; it is a CAD/CAM system used in dentistry. In other words, designing and producing teeth using computer technology. Cerec applications are a state-of-the-art dental procedure that allows for the fabrication of porcelain restorations in a single session using computer technology without traditional impression materials. It is the process of transferring prepared teeth for porcelain crowns and bridges, laminates, onlays, and inlay fillings into a computer environment using a three-dimensional optical measurement camera. It consists of three units: a computer unit, a imaging unit, and a milling machine.

Medistate Provides Services Using the Cerec System

The Cerec System was developed at the University of Zurich and has been successfully established in dental practices since 1985. More than 25,000 clinics and medical practices in 50 countries around the world operate with this system. Medistate Kavacık Hospital's Oral and Dental Clinic has also been implementing successful practices in this field for over a year. Drawing inspiration from the saying "The only thing that never changes is change itself," Medistate Kavacık Hospital's Oral and Dental Clinic continues to provide its patients with the best and most advanced technology at all times.

Advantages of digital dentistry applications:

• The number of sessions in which patients sit in the chair is minimized, and patients obtain the teeth they desire in their desired shape in a single session without a trial fit. Since the entire treatment process is carried out in a computer environment, error-free results are obtained. After implant treatments, direct loadings are performed to address patients' aesthetic concerns. Since traditional impression materials are not used, this method provides a comfortable treatment option for patients with a strong gag reflex. Patients can select the teeth that suit them from the existing catalogs in the system and become aware of the design that will be made prior to treatment. It offers the possibility of completing an entire mouth restoration in as little as three days for patients living outside the city or abroad.

Kaynakça:

• American Dental Association. CAD/CAM Dentistry: Clinical Applications and Benefits.

• European Federation of Periodontology. Digital Dentistry and Clinical Outcomes Reports.

• International Journal of Computerized Dentistry. Clinical Performance of CAD/CAM Ceramic Restorations.

• Journal of Prosthetic Dentistry. Long-term Outcomes of Chairside CAD/CAM Restorations.

• Turkish Dental Association. Digital Dentistry and CAD/CAM Applications Reports.