If a tooth is too damaged for a filling to fix, or you’re missing one or more teeth, a crown or bridge is usually the next step. At Comfort Dental Centre Buderim, a same-day CEREC crown means you can often walk out with it fitted in a single visit, rather than waiting weeks for a dental lab. A dental crown is a custom restoration placed over a tooth to restore its shape, strength, and appearance.
A dental bridge does a similar job when a tooth is missing altogether, replacing it with a fixed restoration anchored to the teeth on either side. Both can be made from tooth-coloured porcelain, metal, or a combination of the two, and our team designs every crown and bridge to look like a natural part of your smile.
A dental crown restores both the strength and appearance of a tooth that’s too damaged for a filling alone, and protects a tooth after root canal treatment. Using CEREC same-day technology, we can prepare, design, and fit a crown in a single appointment, usually around two hours from start to finish, without the temporary crown and second visit that traditional crowns require. The process is:
Same-day crowns start from $1,650, with flexible payment plans available if you’d rather spread the cost.
A dental bridge is a prosthetic restoration made up of three or more crowns joined together, used to replace one or more missing teeth. It works by anchoring to the natural teeth on either side of the gap, holding the replacement tooth (or teeth) firmly in place. Benefits of a dental bridge include:
With good oral hygiene, regular six-monthly check-ups, and avoiding habits like chewing ice or grinding your teeth, most crowns last well over five years, and many go much longer than that. The exact number depends on where the crown sits in your mouth and how it’s cared for, which is why we check every crown at your regular visits.
The cost of a dental crown depends on your individual circumstances, including the number of crowns needed and whether any other treatment is required first. Same-day crowns start from $1650, and we offer flexible payment plans if you’d like to spread the cost.
Crowns can be made from porcelain, gold, or a porcelain-fused-to-metal combination. Your dentist will recommend the right material based on the tooth’s location and the balance of strength and appearance you need.
The teeth on either side of the gap are prepared and shaped, an impression or digital scan is taken, and the bridge, made up of three or more joined crowns, is placed so the replacement tooth sits naturally between them.
Bridge costs depend on the number of crowns needed, how many bridges are required, and whether the adjacent teeth are suitable to support the bridge. We offer flexible payment plans to help make treatment more manageable.
In most cases, yes. Our CEREC same-day system lets us design and mill your crown in-house while you wait, so there’s no temporary crown and no second appointment for most patients. Your dentist will confirm during your consultation whether same-day treatment is right for your specific tooth.
