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How the CEREC® solution and DS Core® facilitate single visit dentistry

Today’s dental professionals face pressure to deliver exceptional care— fast, efficiently, and without added stress for patients or staff. For four decades, the CEREC workflow has met that challenge, enabling high-quality, single-visit restorations while reducing the need for uncomfortable impression trays and temporary crowns. 

With over eight million restorations produced annually using CEREC solutions,¹ the demand for streamlined, patient-friendly workflows is clear: about two-thirds of patients would switch to a dentist offering single-visit treatments,² and nearly half would pay more for that convenience.

Bringing design and manufacturing in-house helps streamline workflows while strengthening patient loyalty and chairtime efficiency.

How DS Core and the CEREC system work together

Now, this clinically proven4 system enters a new era with CEREC on DS Core5—a cloud-based solution designed to bring flexibility, connectivity, and convenience to dental practices. Whether you're just starting out or scaling your digital capabilities, this innovation empowers teams to manage design and manufacturing tasks seamlessly across devices and locations— making modern dentistry more accessible.

Simplify everyday challenges with single-visit dentistry

Reduce need for outsourcing and stay in control

Outsourcing restorations can be costly and time-consuming. With in-house manufacturing, the CEREC workflow gives you comprehensive control over the process—reducing lab costs, shortening turnaround times, and enabling same-day treatments  that boost patient satisfaction and practice growth.

Improve workflow efficiency

Running a busy practice means juggling appointments, staff, and patient expectations. The CEREC workflow simplifies this with single-visit workflows that replace two rushed appointments with one streamlined visit. Plus, with DS Core, your team can manage jobs from any device, delegate tasks, and collaborate in real time— contributing to making your practice workflows more productive.

Start small and scale over time

Getting started with a cloud-based CEREC workflow does not require being a digital dentistry expert. Begin with single crowns or inlays and onlays, the most common chairside indications, and expand to bridges, veneers, or implant restorations as your confidence and patient demand grow. The intuitive design and guided workflows on DS Core make onboarding easy— no steep learning curve required.

The chairside workflow – CEREC crown in about 1 hour

Step 1: Scan

Spare your patients the discomfort of conventional impressions and benefit from precise 3D models in natural colors. Take an intraoral scan with any Primescan or 3Shape Trios scanner and continue via DS Core.5

Step 2: Design

Design customized restorations easily using either CEREC on DS Core or on-premise CEREC Software. Both ways provide excellent initial proposals and simple form, shape and move tools to tailor the design to your preference.

Step 3: Manufacture

Transmit your design to the milling machine from the CEREC Software or via DS Core with ease. Using Super Fast Grinding Mode, available for CEREC Primemill, CEREC Primemill Lite or CEREC Go, composite or hybrid ceramic crowns can be produced in around 4 minutes, inlays in around 2 minutes.6 Zirconia crowns can be milled in around five minutes using CEREC Primemill’s Super-Fast Milling Mode.6

Step 4: Finalization

Materials which require heat treatment, e.g. zirconia and glass ceramics, can be finalized in CEREC SpeedFire right in your practice. This highly intuitive, easy-to-use dental furnace provides guided workflows and fast sintering processes for various validated2 materials.  

Experience the speed of the CEREC workflow

Flexible CEREC workflows: Design in the cloud, work from anywhere

Smarter, more connected dentistry

CEREC on DS Core5 is designed to make practice workflows more flexible and connected than ever. You can design restorations in the cloud, receive AI-generated proposals for crowns, inlays, and onlays, and manage every step - from scanning to milling— anytime and on any device. Your team can easily collaborate and take over different workflow steps, enhancing efficiency and productivity. 
Guided, effortless processes

The built-in Workflow Assistant walks you through each step, making the process intuitive even for beginners. And with more indications coming soon, this is just the beginning of a broader digital transformation. No need to install and update any software, always work with the latest version.
Streamlined manufacturing and quality control

Combined with the Manufacturing features on DS Core,5 you can also benefit from automatic job documentation, facilitating quality management.

CEREC milling options for every practice

Whether you're scaling up or just starting out with single visit dentistry, there's a CEREC milling unit to match your needs— all integrated with DS Core. 

CEREC Primemill®

Benefit from speed and precision with CEREC Primemill®, the premium milling solution for the main range of chairside indications (crowns, inlays, onlays, bridges, veneers, implant restorations) and validated materials.6 Mill a zirconia crown in around 5 minutes6 using Super Fast Milling Mode and finalize the crown in CEREC SpeedFire®. 

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CEREC Primemill® Lite

In case you are looking for a versatile, but budget-friendly version, CEREC Primemill Lite supports the main chairside indications and validated materials6 with fast and fine milling and grinding modes. 

CEREC® Go

For those looking for an easy entry into single visit dentistry, CEREC® Go is a wet grinding unit designed for crowns, inlays and onlays made of composite and hybrid ceramics which do not require heat treatment.

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Discover why dentists trust CEREC

Ready to experience the future of chairside dentistry?

With CEREC on DS Core, your workflows aren’t just connected – they are customizable to individual practice needs, scalable to grow with your journey, and support practice growth, delegation and efficiency. Discover how cloud-powered workflows can transform your practice.
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1 Source: Looker

2 Dynata Research. January 9, 2020. internal data on file. For more information, contact Consumables-Data-Requests@dentsplysirona.com

3 Exevia GmbH – Survey of 717 German dental patients, November 2015. internal data on file. For more information, contact Consumables-Data-Requests@dentsplysirona.com

4 Reiss B. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2001;22(6 Suppl):14–18. Reiss B. Int J Comput Dent. 2006;9(1):11–22.  Otto T. Int J Comput Dent. 2017;20(3):315–329. Abdulrahman S, et al. BMC Oral Health. 2021;21(1):625

5 Requires a paid DS Core subscription 

6 Internal validation report, data on file. Available at contact@dentsplysirona.com

7 Additional paid DS Core Care subscription required