This blog explores how GC’s CERASMART270 blocks and G-CEM ONE cement can support efficient digital restorative workflows, from CAD/CAM restoration creation through to final placement.
- Digital dentistry is evolving rapidly, with 84% of dental professionals now using digital dental tools in their practice.
- Despite increased digital adoption, restorative workflows still rely on the fundamentals of careful planning, material selection, finishing, seating and cementation.
- Choosing CAD/CAM blocks and cements that are not suited to the workflow can affect efficiency, patient experience, and consistency.
- GC’s CERASMART270 blocks support CAD/CAM restorative workflows with aesthetics, strength, force-absorbing flexibility, efficient milling, and finishing options.
- GC’s G-CEM ONE cement supports the final placement stage with simplified cementation, reliable bond strength, easy handling, and broad substrate compatibility.
- Together, CERASMART270 and G-CEM ONE help support a connected workflow from digital design through to final cementation.
Key Takeaways:
- Digital dentistry is evolving rapidly, with 84% of dental professionals now using digital dental tools in their practice.
- Despite increased digital adoption, restorative workflows still rely on the fundamentals of careful planning, material selection, finishing, seating and cementation.
- Choosing CAD/CAM blocks and cements that are not suited to the workflow can affect efficiency, patient experience, and consistency.
- GC’s CERASMART270 blocks support CAD/CAM restorative workflows with aesthetics, strength, force-absorbing flexibility, efficient milling, and finishing options.
- GC’s G-CEM ONE cement supports the final placement stage with simplified cementation, reliable bond strength, easy handling, and broad substrate compatibility.
- Together, CERASMART270 and G-CEM ONE help support a connected workflow from digital design through to final cementation.
Key Takeaways:
- Digital dentistry is evolving rapidly, with 84% of dental professionals now using digital dental tools in their practice.
- Despite increased digital adoption, restorative workflows still rely on the fundamentals of careful planning, material selection, finishing, seating and cementation.
- Choosing CAD/CAM blocks and cements that are not suited to the workflow can affect efficiency, patient experience, and consistency.
- GC’s CERASMART270 blocks support CAD/CAM restorative workflows with aesthetics, strength, force-absorbing flexibility, efficient milling, and finishing options.
- GC’s G-CEM ONE cement supports the final placement stage with simplified cementation, reliable bond strength, easy handling, and broad substrate compatibility.
- Together, CERASMART270 and G-CEM ONE help support a connected workflow from digital design through to final cementation.
With 84% of dental professionals now using digital dental tools in their practice,1 and many looking to adopt further digital technologies in the next 12-24 months, modern dentistry is evolving rapidly.
But despite this, the foundations of successful restorative care have remained largely unchanged, centring around careful planning, dependable materials, and confident cementation.
Why Product Selection Still Matters In Digital Restorative Workflows
Digital tools can help practices work more efficiently, but they do not remove the everyday clinical challenges that come with restorative dentistry.
- Dental professionals still need to manage case planning, material selection, preparation design, finishing, seating, and cementation with care. In indirect restorative workflows, choosing products that are not well suited to the case or workflow can affect both efficiency and confidence in a number of ways:
- Ineffective Time Management: Hard-to-mill or hard-to-finish materials can add unnecessary time to appointments, putting extra pressure on busy practice schedules and dental teams.
- Poor Patient Experience: Patients often have high expectations for the look and feel of their restorations. If a material does not support a smooth, aesthetic finish, it can affect the final appearance, leaving patients feeling less satisfied with the outcome.
- Complicated Processes: A cementation process that feels complex, technique-sensitive, or unpredictable can create pressure at the final stage of treatment.
- Unpredictable Results: When materials and cements are not selected with the full workflow in mind, you may encounter issues with fit, finish, handling, or final placement, making it hard to deliver consistent results.
When choosing your CAD/CAM blocks and cement, you should consider their connection within your workflow, and select items that work seamlessly together to help support the journey from digital design through to final placement.
Building a workflow that feels efficient, reliable, and manageable from start to finish relies on dependable restorative solutions. That’s where GC’s CERASMART270 blocks and G-CEM ONE cement come in.
From Restoration Creation to Cementation with GC
If you’re looking to support efficient indirect restorative workflows in your practice, CERASMART270 and G-CEM ONE offer a practical pairing: a CAD/CAM restorative material designed for digital workflows, followed by a cementation solution that helps simplify the final placement stage.
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Create Aesthetic Restorations With CERASMART270 Blocks
Designed for CAD/CAM restorative workflows, CERASMART270 blocks help clinicians balance aesthetics, strength, and efficiency from milling through to finishing.
- Highly Aesthetic Results: Produce natural-looking restorations using shades that blend in lifelike colours, and feature optimally balanced fluorescence and opalescence. CERASMART270 blocks can also be polished or characterised for more vibrant aesthetics.
- Impressive Strength: Support long-lasting clinical performance, even for demanding restorations, thanks to CERASMART270’s high filler content, improved flexural strength, and high resistance to fracture.
- Force-Absorbing Flexibility: Reduce stress peaks during chewing, and decrease the risk of material fatigue due to CERASMART270’s force-absorbing hybrid ceramic construction, also making it suitable for implant restorations.
- Fast And Efficient Milling: Deliver efficient milling for the creation of high-quality restorations with fine margins and optimal fit in minutes, supporting single-visit workflows.
- Precise, Smooth Margins: Create restorations with smooth, well-defined edges after milling, helping support a natural fit and clean finish.
- Flexible Finishing And Surface Quality: Choose between simple polishing or characterisation by using CERASMART270 alongside OPTIGLAZE Color to add colour, gloss and individual detail. Very low wear and high gloss retention help support durable, aesthetic results over time.
- Clinical Versatility: Support a wide range of cases, from onlays and molar restorations to wear cases, implant-supported crowns, and quadrant restorations with a choice of multiple pre-treatment options, shades, translucencies, and block formats.
Seat Restorations With Confidence With G-CEM ONE Cement
G-CEM ONE cement supports the final placement stage with a simplified, reliable cementation workflow designed to help clinicians seat restorations with confidence.
- Simplified Cementation: Reduce workflow complexity with a single universal self-adhesive resin cement designed for a wide range of clinical cases and restorative substrates.
- Reliable Bond Strength: Achieve optimal bond strength for both retentive and non-retentive preparations when used alongside the optional G-CEM ONE Adhesive Enhancing Primer and GC Touch Cure technology.
- Excellent Self-Curing Ability: Support efficient placement thanks to G-CEM ONE’s optimised paste flow, easy clean-up, and virtually no post-operative sensitivity.
- Easy Handling: Support a smoother cementation process with easy tack-cure clean-up, and added bonding confidence in moist clinical conditions when used with G-CEM ONE Adhesive Enhancing Primer.
- Broad Substrate Compatibility: Bond to a wide range of substrates, including enamel, dentin, zirconia, metal, glass ceramics, and hybrid ceramics when used with G-Multi PRIMER where required.
- Aesthetic Margins: Support aesthetic outcomes with an invisible, wear-resistant margin, low film thickness, and high wear resistance to help maintain a discrete cement line.
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Cementation with G-CEM One
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1. What are CERASMART270 blocks used for?
CERASMART270 blocks are CAD/CAM restorative blocks designed to support digital restorative workflows, positioned for aesthetic restorations, onlays, molar restorations, wear cases, implant-supported crowns, and quadrant restorations.
2. How do CERASMART270 blocks support digital restorative workflows?
CERASMART270 blocks help clinicians balance aesthetics, strength, and efficiency from milling through to finishing, delivering natural-looking results thanks to product benefits such as high filler content, improved flexural strength, force-absorbing flexibility, efficient milling, precise margins, and a range of finishing options.
3. What is G-CEM ONE cement used for?
G-CEM ONE cement supports the final placement stage of the restorative workflow. It is a universal self-adhesive resin cement designed for a wide range of clinical cases and restorative substrates.
4. How does G-CEM ONE help simplify cementation?
G-CEM ONE helps reduce workflow complexity with a single universal self-adhesive resin cement, easy tack-cure clean-up, optimised paste flow, broad substrate compatibility, and use with G-CEM ONE Adhesive Enhancing Primer where required.
5. Why should CAD/CAM blocks and cement be considered together?
CAD/CAM blocks and cement are connected parts of the same workflow. Selecting products with the full process in mind can help support the journey from digital design through to final placement.
