It sometimes takes your breath away at just how far dental treatments have come since the joy of computers hit the surgeries in central Leeds and in fact, all over the world. They have revolutionised dental procedures and you can be treated so fast these days; CAD/CAM technology epitomises this. If you are in need of a crown, a veneer or two, a new implant fitting or a dental bridge, this would normally take a couple of weeks to make and then fit, and should it go wrong, the fitting would have to be sent off again to be adjusted. With CAD/CAM, everything is done in-house and all of this can be done on the spot- even if something goes wrong; on average, most of these fittings can be designed, made and fitted in around the hour- perfect if you have little time to spare in a busy day. You go in there and have your mouth prepared and then digitally imaged; these pictures are sent to a computer programme that designs that part you need. This info is now sent to a milling machine next door which will create your fitting from a block of ceramics or resin. It will fire the fitting and glaze it to suit the colour of the rest of your teeth. Then it is simply cemented into place….that’s it, a beautifully restored smile in next to no time- blooming marvellous eh?