Same-Day Dental Crowns in Brisbane

Same Day Crowns

At Excellence in Dentistry, we offer CEREC, or chair-side, zirconia and porcelain crowns. As one of the few dentists in Brisbane with this technology, we can make and fit ceramic crowns in our clinic in a single visit, allowing us to fine-tune the fitting and reduce your cost and time by eliminating the need for multiple visits.

Same day crowns, especially those made of zirconia or porcelain, offer excellent durability, ensuring they are as strong and reliable as traditional crowns. The entire same-day crown process is remarkably efficient, typically taking just a couple of hours from digital impressions to final placement, allowing you to leave with your new crown the same day. At our practice, we do not charge extra for CEREC same-day crowns, and the convenience of a single visit benefits patients in multiple ways.

The technology is suitable for many dental crown cases, including single-tooth restorations and 3-unit dental bridges. However, our dentist will assess your specific needs to determine if a same-day crown is the best choice based on the tooth’s location, size, and complexity.

The procedure for one-day crowns follows these simple steps:

1. Preparation of the tooth – our dentist removes a thin layer of enamel to make room for the crown
2. Digital Scan – for CEREC, we use a scanner to take a digital impression to provide our dentists with precise 3D images of your teeth and their natural colour
3. Crown Design – the software will analyse the scan of your mouth in just a few minutes, and the dentist digitally creates the restoration proposal
4. Making The Crown – the design is automatically transferred to the milling machine to creates your unique ceramic crown
5. Finalising & Insertion – our dentist checks to ensure everything is correct before inserting your new crown

You leave our clinic with your newly placed restoration and a nice smile in just one day!

Traditional Crowns

Traditional porcelain crowns are made in an off-site lab and so require two separate appointments. The first prepares your teeth to the standards needed for accurately fitting a crown to the tooth. Then impressions or scans of the teeth are made, and a temporary crown is fitted so you can continue your daily routines while awaiting the permanent crown.

Your second appointment is about two or three weeks later, giving the laboratory time to create your customised crown. Once received, our dentist will remove the temporary placement, meticulously clean the tooth, and carefully bond your new cap to your tooth.