Porcelain Crowns and Bridges
Porcelain Crowns from $1180
What are Crowns and Bridges?
A bridge is a permanent replacement of missing teeth. The bridge is attached to the teeth on either side of the gap. It is attached with permanent cement. A non surgical quick procedure and is good for patients with existing medical conditions eg, anxiety, diabetes, osteoporosis and other.
For Every Budget
Crowns from $1280
Normally $1495 - $2200
We can give you a quote after we examine your teeth and plan your treatment.
1 Cerasmart Crown | 1 Emax Crown | 1 Zirconia Crown |
|---|---|---|
$980 | $1980 | $2200 |
0% interest payment plans available over $2000
Cerasmart NEW
Force Absorbing, Flexible Nano Ceramic CAD/CAM Block
- Strength 230 MPa, need 2mm thickness (ideal after Root Canal Treatment)
- The flexural strength of CERASMART are evaluated by a biaxial flexure test is 238 MPa. According to this test, CERASMART® showed higher than any other material besides e.max CAD
- Fastest mill time and self polishing properties
- Superior gloss value, tooth colour blocks, some translucent qualities, good for posterior teeth
- Unsurpassed marginal integrity, Revolutionary flexible nano ceramic matrix structure
- New materials no long term studies available yet
- Made by GC Japan
EMAX CAD - The world's best-selling glass-ceramic
- Strength 530 MPa, which allows full-contour crowns of only 1.5mm thickness, conserves natural tooth structure
- The flexural strength of EMAX is 356 MPa
- Needs 10-15 mins milling time and 30 mins crystalizing in the furnace
- Superior glaze and stain, high aesthetic standards are fulfilled due to the four different levels of translucency of the A-D shades and the special Bleach and Impulse shades, recommened for anterior teeth and beautiful posterior crowns
- Clinical long-term success and scientifically documented results
- Average biaxial flexural strength, over a period of 10 years, R&D Ivoclar Vivadent, Schaan, Liechtenstein
Zir CAD, Zirconia
- Highest strength porcelain block from 850 to 1,200 MPa, which allows full-contour crowns of only 1mm thickness
- High strength, and high fracture toughness
- Superior glaze and stain allows with pleasing esthetics, A trade-off in translucency if high aesthetics is not required
- Needs 10-15 mins milling time and 8 hours sintering in the special furnace
- High strength and fracture toughness allow low wall thicknesses – for even less invasive preparations than before
- Ideal for 3-4 unit or multiple unit bridge, great for frameworks with max. 2 pontics
- Made by R&D Ivoclar Vivadent, Schaan, Liechtenstein
When is a Crown Suitable?
- You have a chipped or cracked tooth
- Over ¾ of the surface of your tooth is filled
- Your tooth has been root-filled
- You have teeth that have not formed to their entirety
- You have missing teeth
The most advanced and effective restoration process available
- Completely natural look and feel
- Long-lasting and very strong
- Closely matches your tooth colour
- LESS PAIN, LESS STRESS and can be done In one visit
- No toxic metals
What is CEREC ?
CEREC (Chair-side Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics) is a very high precision, computerised manufacturing process for porcelain crowns and veneers.
It is the most advanced and effective restoration process available to date.
CEREC uses a CAD/CAM process (Computer Aided Design/Computer Aided Manufacture) to mill a crows or veneers out of ceramic blocks.
Benefit To You: Your Tooth Gets One More Life
CEREC allows the dentist to perform conservative restorations and save more of your healthy tooth. It protects your natural tooth structure. This means even LESS drilling. It also ensure the best fit and achieves a perfect bite.
This is possible because of the very high precision manufacturing process: the tolerances are just 25 microns i.e. 0.025 mm, which is about a quarter of the thickness of a sheet of paper.
Benefit To You: LESS PAIN, LESS STRESS It Can Be Done In ONE Visit
You can get a complete, permanent, all ceramic crown, onlay, or veneer in just one quick visit! This means FEWER shots, LESS drilling, and less time out of your hectic schedule. No temporary that is uncomfortable, ugly and weak.
The crowns and veneers are milled on site, in the dentist’s lab.
Benefit To You: Most Biologically Compatible Material
- Natural look — The porcelain colour and translucency closely mimic the look of natural teeth.
- Natural wear — Perfect enamel replacement, neither too hard nor too soft. Feels like a natural tooth. There is no undue wear and you will not need to replace time and again, as you might with older crown or filling technology. Metal restorations can be too abrasive and can damage your natural teeth, the opposing tooth structure.
- No toxic metals — When you replace mercury and other toxic metals with ceramic crowns and fillings you remove those metals from your mouth and the potential harm they may cause. That is a huge reason to opt for ceramics.
- No cracking — The ceramic material used to create your crown or filling expands and contracts as your natural teeth do. This means there is no stress put on your natural tooth structure.
- Strength of gold, looks of natural teeth — Dental bonding using ceramics can return up to 93% of the original strength to a damaged tooth.
Benefit To You: Closely Matches Natural Tooth The Colour Always Matches
The colour and translucence closely follow that of the natural tooth. Porcelain crowns and porcelain veneers can give you the closest look to the natural teeth, giving you that natural smile
CEREC uses a repetitive industrial process to manufacture the ceramic with precise specifications and well defined colours. This means that the colour always matches.
Now, tomorrow or ten years from now if you decide that you want more work done. You can match all your crowns and veneers at any time.
Benefit To You: It Protects Your Investment
Because the process involves high-precision measurements and hi-tech ceramics CEREC porcelain crowns and porcelain veneers have the same expansion rate as tooth material which is one of the reasons they can last for many decades.
Past clinical studies from the ’90es have proven that even with the older CEREC 1 and CEREC 2 system the success rate of porcelain crowns after nine years was 95.5% And this was with older systems. And even more: the rest just needed more work mainly because of later tooth extraction. And that was before the current levels of clinical precision and the quality of the joints.
Benefit To You: It’s Cheaper In The long Run
- Most biologically compatible materials — which means least amount of stress on your teeth, no undue wear.
- Same colour: all time, every time, guaranteed — CEREC porcelains are created from the CEREC blocks which are made in a repeatable industrial process which means you can be sure that you can get the same colour to match your other porcelain crowns or veneers, every time, now or even ten years from now.
- Cheapest all-porcelain crowns — because they are made on the spot by a fully automated milling machine, there are no laboratory costs, no second visit hassles.
- One visit only — LESS PAIN, less hassle, less time in the dental chair.
Herman Dental is located in the state heritage listed former Ithaca Fire Station @ 140 Enoggera Terrace Paddington.
Some History About Our Building
The Ithaca Fire Brigade was established by the merger of Milton and Ithaca Fire Brigades in 1918.
Costing 500 Pounds at the time the first stage of the building was built by the fire fighters themselves using materials salvaged from other fire stations.
In 1919 a new station was opened which contained an engine room, recreation room, large dormitory, bathroom and verandah.
In 1928, an extra floor was added to accommodate the officer in charge.
The fire station operated until 1992, making it the longest fire station to operate in the Brisbane Area.
To this day much of the building has been kept original. You can still see the fireman’s pole in the building today!
What areas do we service?
Being located in the heart of Paddington allows us to serve as a local dentist for many of Brisbane City’s inner suburbs. With convenient parking available our main servicing area’s are from paddington and surrounding suburbs including Ashgrove, Bardon and Red Hill. However, anyone is welcome to our practice.