Dr Simon Smyth BDS, ISCD Certified Trainer.
In 2009 I set up a new private practice in Bishops Waltham, Hampshire to provide CEREC restorative dentistry, implants and biometric analysis and treatment using T-scan and the BioPAK system.
I first looked into CEREC back in 1998, when it was still the CEREC 2. Unfortunately, Siemens who had developed the system, didn't consider the UK worth bothering with (a backwater in healthcare was apparently the thinking) and so CEREC didn't have much support or backup and the demonstration I had was poor and un-convincing.
CEREC 3 was launched in 2001 and I had a demo with Bike Bosworth from the UK CEREC dealer Ceramic Systems . The demo was most convincing and so I ordered one which came in January 2003. In April the new 3D software was launched which was incredible compared with the 2D software.
In 2004, having pioneered use of the new 3D software and completed over a thousand restorations, I was asked by Ceramic Systems to teach other dentists how to use the system in everyday practice. Since then I have trained over 500 dentists, lectured, written articles and most importantly complete thousands of restorations in my own practice from single unit inlays to multiple unit crowns and veneers. .
I always felt CEREC could rival and indeed surpass a lab and so I developed a range of techniques to help me do just that. These are the techniques I teach on my courses and enable me to tackle virtually any case with CEREC.