CAD/CAM in-office technology: innovations after 25 years for predictable, esthetic outcomes.

Background: The in-office application of computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) has evolved continually across 25 years, and material enhancements made in conjunction with this evolution have improved the speed and precision with which dentists can place high-quality, esthetic restorations for almost every dental application.

Methods: The authors present an overview of the CEREC Acquisition Center (AC) with Bluecam system (Sirona Dental Systems, Charlotte, N.C.

Predictable aesthetic replacement of a metal-ceramic crown using CAD/CAM technology: a case report.

The currently available CAD/CAM technologies present clinicians with various clinical benefits that include durability, marginal adaptation, and precision aesthetics. The clinical and laboratory procedures associated with these CAD/CAM systems differ from one another, and practitioners must understand the indications for each. Office-based systems, as demonstrated in the following case presentation, allow excellent results to be achieved in a single patient visit and provide a viable alternative for today's practice.

Simplified ceramic restorations using CAD/CAM technologies.

The advent of CAD/CAM systems that enable computerized, in-office fabrication of porcelain restorations has revolutionized the delivery of precise, durable, and aesthetic restorations. Using specialized software programs that facilitate visualization of the desired restoration on the model prior to actual fabrication and scanning devices that can be applied to the intraoral structures have further improved the clinician's ability to determine the necessary restorative parameters that will ensure an accurate fit. This article presents the fabrication and delivery protocol used for CAD/CAM-fabricated restorations.