Dental Technology at San Mateo Prosthodontics
Precision Ensuring Better Treatment Outcomes
San Mateo Prosth
San Mateo Prosth
Precision Ensuring Better Treatment Outcomes
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, exceptional care begins with technological innovation and compassion for every patient. We combine decades of experience across our team with science-backed methods and advanced dental technology to provide definitive prosthodontic care.
From custom crowns to lifelike dentures, our in-house lab and advanced tools ensure high–quality, precise, and more comfortable care.
See how our commitment to dental technology will elevate your experience and treatment outcomes.
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, we utilize a full-service in-house dental laboratory. This level of collaboration between a prosthodontist and a dental technician is invaluable in ensuring proper collaboration and communication to result in high-quality restorations.
With advanced dental technology and an in-house lab, we can efficiently manage complex cases.
Intraoral Scanning for Prosthodontic Treatment
Manual impressions are messy and uncomfortable for patients, and simple mistakes can mean rework or poor treatment outcomes. We avoid setbacks with intraoral scanning technology.
An intraoral scanner captures detailed images of your teeth and gums in seconds, transferring the data to software to create a detailed computer model.
Intraoral scanning is painless and provides a gag-free experience. It is perfect for patients with a strong gag reflex or severely mobile dentition due to advanced gum disease. The results are equally as accurate as physical impressions, with digital scans detecting the most subtle contours and structural features, ensuring that restorations fit perfectly.
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, we leverage state-of-the-art intraoral scanning technology to provide a more comfortable, efficient, and precise dental experience. Unlike traditional impressions, which can be messy and uncomfortable, an intraoral scanner captures highly detailed 3D digital images of the teeth and gums within seconds.
This advanced technology enhances accuracy, reducing errors that may occur with conventional impressions and ensuring a more precise fit for crowns, bridges, implants, and other restorations. Additionally, the digital workflow allows for more efficiency, improving communication with the dental lab and improving outcomes. Patients benefit from a more comfortable experience, fewer appointments, and highly aesthetic, well-fitting restorations, making their dental care more predictable and efficient.
Photogrammetry
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, we utilize cutting-edge photogrammetry technology to enhance the accuracy and efficiency of full-arch implant restorations. Unlike traditional impressions, photogrammetry captures the exact spatial relationship of multiple implants without distortion, eliminating the need for impression copings and reducing patient discomfort.
This highly precise digital workflow improves passive fit, minimizes prosthetic complications, and enhances the long-term success of implant-supported restorations.
Additionally, it reduces chair time and the number of appointments needed, allowing for a more streamlined and predictable treatment process. By integrating this advanced dental technology, we provide exceptional fit, function, and aesthetics, ensuring the best possible outcome for our patients.
CEREC (Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics) is an advanced dental technology that allows our prosthodontists to develop provisional restorations in a single visit.
Our CEREC machine’s advanced dental technology combines 3D imaging with advanced software to create detailed models of your teeth and surrounding structures. The machine then produces a ceramic crown that looks and feels natural and perfectly fits your unique anatomy.
We utilize the CEREC machine to fabricate high-quality, long-term provisional restorations with exceptional precision and durability.
Unlike traditional temporary restorations, which may lack strength and esthetics, CEREC-milled provisionals offer a superior fit, better wear resistance, and enhanced function, making them ideal for cases requiring extended healing or diagnostic evaluation.
These custom-milled provisionals allow patients to experience their new bite and smile before finalizing their restorations, ensuring optimal comfort and aesthetics. By integrating CEREC into our workflow, we provide efficient, highly customized, and reliable temporary solutions that support successful long-term outcomes for complex prosthetic and implant cases.
How We Utilize 3D Printing
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, we incorporate advanced 3D printing technology to enhance the precision, efficiency, and customization of dental restorations. This cutting-edge technology allows us to fabricate provisional restorations, custom trays, and models with exceptional detail and fit, occlusal splints, implant prototypes, etc.
Compared to traditional methods, 3D printing accelerates production times, enabling same-day or next-day restorations while maintaining superior quality. It also reduces material waste and ensures greater consistency in results, leading to more predictable and comfortable treatment outcomes for our patients. By integrating 3D printing into our workflow, we provide state-of-the-art prosthetic solutions with unmatched accuracy, efficiency, and aesthetics.
Smile Design
At San Mateo Prosthodontics, we utilize Exocad, a state-of-the-art digital design software, to create highly precise and customized smile proposals, restorations, and implant prosthetics in-house. This advanced technology allows us to digitally design crowns, bridges, veneers, and full-mouth rehabilitations with unparalleled accuracy and efficiency.
By keeping the design process in-house, we ensure greater control over esthetics and functionality, allowing for real-time adjustments and a more efficient process.
Patients can visualize their personalized smile design before treatment begins, making the process more collaborative and predictable. With Exocad’s powerful digital workflow, we enhance treatment precision, reduce reliance on external labs, and deliver beautiful, natural-looking restorations tailored to each patient’s unique needs.
Committed to Advanced Dental Technology
It’s important to bring technology into context with compassionate treatment, experienced practitioners, and expertly planned care. Our advanced dental technology is just one of the ways we ensure the best quality standards with better outcomes. How we combine it with detailed care makes it perfect for you.
Schedule your consultation and see how technology and the best prosthodontist team can build a smile that brings you comfort and confidence.