My day started off with two big crown placing, and both were in two different ways. The first crown placement was similar to the one I had explained in a previous blog. It started with grinding and smoothing the tooth out. Next, the dentist took pictures to put on the Cerec to create an outline of the crown itself. Once it was electronically made, it was processed into a machine that created and molded the crown from a square of the material. The crown was then taken out and tried into the mouth and then adjustments were made as needed, then put in an oven for twenty minutes. The oven smoothed, polishes, and glosses the crown over. The cement is put into the crown and placed on the shaved down tooth. The dentist then cleaned around for cement that oozed out and flossed in polish for the final touches. The next crown placement is a longer process, through weeks, because there are temporary and permanent crowns throughout the process. It starts the same as the others with smoothing the area where the crown is going down and then first an impression is taken with two different colors of paste to use to recognize the area where the crown is needed. Next a bite impression is taken with another type of paste, and those two impressions are put into a box and sent out to a lab for them to create a crown. Since the area is shaved down, their needs to be a temporary crown which the material is made from a type of paste that is put in between the bite of the patient. Once that has harden, the material is taken out and temporarily cemented onto the smoothed tooth, and when the permanent crown comes in, the temporary will pop off and be replaced. With all that, and having to leave for a game, I worked 8-2 with no lunch for a total of 6 hours. I will be going to Dr. Roland Bryan's office tomorrow, the periodontist and dental implant dentist, and I am very excited to see if I am still as fascinated as the first two days I was!
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