{"id":5837,"date":"2011-04-06T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T03:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5837"},"modified":"2011-04-06T22:44:40","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T03:44:40","slug":"high-tech-dental","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/?p=5837","title":{"rendered":"High Tech Dental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, have I told you how cool our new dentist is. They have one of the most high tech facilities that I have ever seen.<br \/>\nLast Saturday I had to get a new crown put on one of my teeth. In the past it was a long process where I hade to get an impression, have a temp put on, wait two weeks while it was sent out and made then come back and have the new one put on. Not this time.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a video of my tooth being made.<br \/>\n<object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" data=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=301636d11f&amp;photo_id=5583873670\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" \/><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=71377\" bgcolor=\"#000000\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" flashvars=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=301636d11f&amp;photo_id=5583873670\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Here is what it looked like after, before they stuffed it in my head.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5581817009\/\" title=\"2011-04-02 10.06.37.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5055\/5581817009_483a7dcdfd.jpg\" alt=\"2011-04-02 10.06.37.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the days of those tacky dental impressions are in the past. They have digital imagery that does most of the work for you. This machine was the coolest. They had to spray a powder on your teeth that is the same stuff they print on M&amp;M&#8217;s. Then they take a little camera and take a few pictures. Once they have all of the images, the computer finds the best match out of over 4000 possibilities. Then it provides a number and that tells you what porcelain blank to put into the machine. Then, 12 minutes later, you have a tooth.<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ching\/5582365974\/\" title=\"2011-04-02 09.54.44.jpg by Ching, on Flickr\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5030\/5582365974_a1d40e1836.jpg\" alt=\"2011-04-02 09.54.44.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, I would say that my experience was awesome. I have to go back next month for a few filling replacements. Hopefully it will be just as rewarding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, have I told you how cool our new dentist is. They have one of the most high tech facilities that I have ever seen. Last Saturday I had to get a new crown put on one of my teeth. In the past it was a long process where I hade to get an impression, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5840,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5837\/revisions\/5840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brubakers.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}