{"id":357,"date":"2015-08-01T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2015-08-01T14:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2016-07-30T19:57:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T00:57:08","slug":"dr-gentry-explains-cadcam-technology-and-3d-printing-in-dentistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/dr-gentry-explains-cadcam-technology-and-3d-printing-in-dentistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Gentry explains CAD\/CAM technology and 3D printing in dentistry."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAD\/CAM is an acronym for computer-aided design\/computer-aided manufacturing. CAD\/CAM technology has been increasingly incorporated into dentistry over the past 20 years.\u00a0CAD\/CAM technology is used by dentists and dental laboratories to provide our patients with 3-D milled ceramic crowns and other types of restorations, and to fabricate abutments for dental implants, used to replace missing teeth. A digital impression is taken of the\u00a0patient&#8217;s teeth or dental impression, and the\u00a0restoration is milled from a single block of tooth colored ceramic material in a milling chamber.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_358\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-358\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1509.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-358 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1509-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_1509\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1509-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/IMG_1509.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-358\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Digital design of the crown restoration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_608\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-608\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/unnamed1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-608 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/unnamed1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"unnamed\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/unnamed1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/unnamed1-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/unnamed1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-608\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sending the digital impression to the 3-D milling machine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_359\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/milling-machine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-359 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/milling-machine.jpg\" alt=\"milling-machine\" width=\"275\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3-D printer fabricating the dental restoration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Cerec Crown Milling\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Rco0HlnzZQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 3-D milling machine fabricating the dental restoration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAD\/CAM is an acronym for computer-aided design\/computer-aided manufacturing. CAD\/CAM technology has been increasingly incorporated into dentistry over the past 20 years.\u00a0CAD\/CAM technology is used by dentists and dental laboratories to provide our patients with 3-D milled ceramic crowns and other types of restorations, and to fabricate abutments for dental implants, used to replace missing teeth. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/dr-gentry-explains-cadcam-technology-and-3d-printing-in-dentistry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dr. Gentry explains CAD\/CAM technology and 3D printing in dentistry.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[11,43,21,9,10,52,12,15,17,16],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-dentistry","tag-arlington","tag-crown","tag-dental-implant","tag-dental-implants","tag-dentist","tag-digital-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}