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I spent the weekend at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting showing all who walked by the Sirona booth what will be coming in the next software version release. All kept hearing when I was done with the demonstration was....WOW!! I did dozens of demonstrations every day and each time the people who witnessed it, including myself, were just amazed. Between having the buccal bite registration included in the chairside version of the software, and the fantastic new biogeneric crowns, proposals of the onlays and crowns I designed were about as close to scan, click and mill as I have ever seen in the seven years I have been using the software. It was truly remarkable.
No more databases to have to try and decide which type of design would best match the adjacent teeth. Now we have a way for the software to look at the adjacent teeth and create a restoration that will most closely mimic what that patient has in their mouth. This process has been 9 years in the making and is truly revolutionary.
Take a look at some of the vidoes on the website and enjoy. Looks as if May or June may be the release date. Looks like Sirona has figured out a way to speed up the designs, now if I could just figure out a way to speed up time!!!
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We commissioned a survey here on the website. You can access the survey by clicking on the banner ad on the top that says "Make CEREC a Household Name". So far almost 500 clinicians have taken the survey and the results are very interesting.
The survey will be up for another few weeks after which we will compile and share all the results with everyone. But I have to say that the level of interest in this campaign has blown me away.
I would ask that if you have not done so, please take the survey so that we can get more accurate data and decide how best to proceed. My hope is that we can do a CEREC Superbowl ad from this. How great would that be!
Way to early to tell if we have enough interest or not in this but I think we have to look at this seriously considering the level of interest so far.
Please take the survey and share your thoughts.
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Check out the videos in the inlab section. Our adjunct faculty member Dr. Mike Skramstad is becoming quite the expert in the inlab software. He has created a series of videos for those of you that want to mill your own abutments. You can do this with the CEREC and the soon to be FDA approved (sources say sometime in April or May) Abutment Software for the CEREC Inlab.
Sirona will showcase this software at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting but you can get a sneak peek right here.
What you will need to fabricate abutments chairside are the following:
Inlab software - free from your CEREC specialist but you will need a dongle to mill anything from the software- Dongles range in price but will add about $10 to the cost of milling your restorations
Tibase assembly - about $150 - this is a guess on the price as this has not been released in the US although our neighbors across the pond in Europe are already doing this
Sintering oven - because you will mill zirconia as a part of the abutment complex, you will need to sinter zirconia or you may choose to send this off to the laboratory.
Watch all the videos in the inlab section. Enjoy this new feature of your CEREC.
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Bridges Are Here!
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Sameer Puri (cerecdoctors.com co-founder)
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Thu Feb 18, 2010 8:35 PM
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So today I was visiting Vita and they showed how CEREC will soon be able to make permanent bridges. Anytime I speak, people ask about bridges and when we will have the ability to make them.
Its always been an enigma on how to do this because we don't have a material that is strong enough and esthetic enough to mill to full contour. However Vita seems to be the first company to come out and offer a solution to this.
The bridges will be milled with a zirconia framework and then a milled suprastructure will be cemented on top. This is very early and these are exclusive photos but here is the concept of milled bridges with CEREC. Done chairside.
More information can be found on this discussion thread:
http://www.cerecdoctors.com/ui/ViewForumNew.aspx?ForumID=3427
Here is a photo:
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Chicago Midwinter
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By
Sameer Puri (cerecdoctors.com co-founder)
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Wed Feb 17, 2010 1:49 AM
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Chicago Midwinter meeting is a time where many CEREC owners attend. Sirona typically releases software at this show and our hope is that this year is no exception.
Im planning on being in Chicago from Thursday to Saturday. If you have any plans on attending, please stop by the Sirona booth where I will be hanging out. Definitely a busy day on Saturday but I hope to say hello to many of you.
You never know what new updates and features the show will bring so I hope you stay tuned. As you know anytime anything new is released by Sirona, you can find it here.
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