Offering you and your patients quality care and specialized service.

Basics PFM's and Full Cast crowns still lead the way

Even with the advent of all the latest technology in ceramics, composites, and other metal free alternatives, traditional porcelain fused to metal and full cast crowns continue to dominate today's dental prosthetic offerings. Sherer Dental Lab's Crown & Bridge Department offers you the following features and benefits: All our fees include model and dies, conventional articulation, and alloy. No hidden charges. We pay postage both ways. Daily pick-up and delivery in many areas of North and South Carolina. Quick turn-around time. Most C&B done in 4 to 6 days in house. Quick Crown Service - Crowns in 1 to 3 days (additional fees apply) Once we accept a case and for any reason it should fail to function correctly, we will repair or remake the case within the five year warranty period at no charge. We use only ADA approved materials in the construction of our prosthetics. Precision construction. All units are trimmed, waxed, seated, finished, and checked under 10x microscopes. We have technicians that have been through the full Panke and Dawson training. Wide range of alloy choices. Porcelain completely over metal (no collars) offered at no extra charge. Crowns under partials done in 3 days at no additional charge. (Single units only; partial must be pulled in impression) Laser welding of bridges allows for extremely accurate fit. Full service implant prosthetics. Free case design and consultation. Free in-lab shade checking and custom staining.

State Of The Industry
Crown & Bridge Materials

To fabricate a custom restoration from your impression, we utilize the finest materials available to dental lab technology today. From stones and waxes to alloys and porcelain, we look for materials that are easy to work with and provide the best end result.

Recent Innovations, Changes, and Improvements

• Porcelain: Other than the advent of the metal-free all ceramic technology, advances have also been made in the traditional porcelains used to bond to metal. The addition of non-traditional materials such as leucite and opal compounds have given porcelains better strength and more vitality. But the biggest advances have been made in the firing temperatures and cycles of traditional feldspathic porcelains. Most of the manufacturers now offer a "low fusing" porcelain which fires at a lower temperature and thus results in a "softer" wear factor. While all porcelains eventually wear enamel, these low fusing materials will be kinder to opposing dentition.
• Dental alloys: In the past several years there have been many advances in the dental alloys offered. The major shifts have been in the improvement of noble, silver-palladium alloys and the increased use of the high noble yellow gold alloys for porcelain application.

An Old Technique Revived and New Technology

You are asked by many patients to make sure no metal shows in their new crown. We can construct a PFM with no metal collars at all; completely covering the metal with porcelain. This is not a porcelain butt-joint margin, we simply cover all exposed metal with the porcelain. It requires a little more effort on our part in the building phase, but actually makes it easier to finish (no metal margins to polish). We have had such good feedback from our accounts that are using this routinely that we now offer this service to you at no additional charge. Ideal margins would be chamfer.

With the addition of the microscopes, computerized milling machine, and laser welder, our C&B department has taken their craft to the next level in technology. This new equipment gives us the advantage of consistently better fits, improved contour and design, and exceptional strength.

Key Advantages To Working with our C&B Department

There are three key reasons to give our C&B Dept. and opportunity to be a part of your team:

1. Exceptional service. We make it easy to send us work. There is always someone here who knows what is going on with your case. We spend more time than most on the phone communicating with you and your staff about case designs, recommendations, and suggestions. We deliver 99% of our cases within 6 working days.
2. Product Support. We stay abreast of the current technology and insure that we are utilizing the best available materials and equipment to do the best job for you and your patients.
3. Quality Goals. While most labs claim high quality, we admit that we sometimes make mistakes. But, our commitment is to do whatever is necessary to improve ourselves to ultimately provide you with the best restoration possible. Through on-site training and continuing education programs from respected facilities such as the Panke Institute, our goal is to keep our technicians on the cutting edge with their skills.

Our Fee Structure

While our fees may not be the lowest in the industry, there are certainly higher priced laboratories out there. Our fees are all-inclusive and include model and dies, articulation, and alloy. We feel that our fees are more than fair based on the services, products, and support we provide.

We are Full Service!

Besides the traditional PFM and full-cast restorations, we offer the latest in all-ceramics (Empress, Eris, Procera, and Cercon), reinforced, high-strength composites (Targis/Vectris, Cristobal+), precision attachments, resin-bonded bridges, implant prosthetics, and full-service removable prosthetics. Please do not hesitate to give us a call and request a full listing of all our products and services.

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