Cercon® Dental Crowns in Kansas City, KS

Fig. 1: Cercon Art
The Cercon Art CAD module allows the technician to design crown and bridge frameworks in virtual 3D. The system utilizes a unique instrument, Cercon Move, which is a 3D navigation tool providing an easy way to visualize all the dimensions of the design on-screen. The software has been designed to follow systematically the working stages normally completed by a technician in wax, thus enabling the dental technician to work intuitively with the software. Fast creation of precision models is almost self-explanatory with this instinctive software. Clear logical menus allow anyone to create anatomical copings as if by hand. Preparation margins are localized and suggested automatically, but the technician still has full control over the design to match individual needs. The design software also provides for “nesting” of multiple units into one block of Cercon base material which increases productivity and minimizes waste in the material. Once the design phase is complete, the file can be sent to the Cercon Brain for milling or to an off-site milling location. Cercon CAD truly simplifies crown and bridge design.

Fig. 2: Cercon Eye “Laser Scanner”
The Cercon Eye equipped with a laser and three cameras, the Cercon Eye optical unit scans single dies, full-arch models, or wax copings on a large scan platform that can digitally map out up to 16 units at one time. With a scan time of less than 20 seconds per unit and a scanning precision of 10 microns or less, it is capable of reading difficult geometries such as undercuts. The scanner integrates with the CerconArt CAD software module for the design of copings, bridge frameworks or implants abutments to be milled in zirconia on the Cercon Brain milling unit. The scanner can work individually or networked in-house, or design data can be sent to Dentsplys Compartis USA centralized outsource center for milling zirconia or wax/resin forms.

Fig. 3: Cercon Brain Milling
Supreme intelligence and a fast bur:
Cercon brain. The scanning and milling unit Cercon brain is filled to the brim with programming expertise, such as non-contact scanning of the wax model, generation of the corresponding data record, milling of the zirconium oxide blank (Cercon base) and at the end, the finished crown or bridge framework. You initiate these fascinating events with just a few keystrokes. The exact linear shrinkage, which will take place in the sintering furnace, is compensated for during the milling phase. During milling, the still unsintered objects undergo precisely pre-calculated over-extension.

Fig. 4: Cercon Heat
First it’s chalky, then it’s hot, then it’s hard. Cercon brain’s intelligence pays off when it enters the hot phase. At 1350°C, the single crown coping or bridge framework reaches its optimal strength in the Cercon heat furnace. Processed in a chalky-soft state, then just sintered hard. That is the secret of the “all-ceramic aesthetics” of zirconium oxide-TZP (“tetragonal zirconia polycrystals”).