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By: Dental Product Shopper

6/2/2025

Overview

Dentsply Sirona's CEREC Primemill mills crowns, bridges, onlays, inlays, veneers, and surgical guides in as little as 4 minutes chairside. Dr. Kirsten Andrews, 18 years in practice in Devils Lake, ND, calls it her practice workhorse — crediting same-day dentistry with measurably increased production and patient satisfaction.

A true practice workhorse, the CEREC Primemill offers fast, precise, and highly accurate restorations with the built-in convenience of same-day dentistry

The CEREC workflow in Dr. Kirsten Andrews' office is best measured in hours rather than days. In fact, the Devils Lake, ND, dentist has some strong words to describe the extent to which Primemill has positively impacted and expedited her workflow. The bottom line? “This machine is my workhorse—it’s changed the way I do dentistry!”

“It’s always a goal to be more efficient,” added Dr. Andrews, who's been in practice for 18 years. “With Primemill, I can mill a crown in just 4 minutes. It’s rewarding to hear a patient tell me, ‘I can’t believe you did this in 1 day and I don’t have to come back.’”

Milling the Way to a Thriving Practice

CEREC Primemill is suitable for milling and grinding a host of treatments, such as crowns, inlays, onlays, veneers, bridges, abutments, and surgical guides.

“I use my Primemill for everything I possibly can,” Dr. Andrews said. “I mill crowns, bridges, onlays, and inlays. I’m no longer fighting with a Tofflemire around a tooth to achieve that composite anatomy. It’s super easy to mill out a composite and cement it in. The margins are so precise, and it gives me a reliable, consistent, and superior product.”

With a rural patient population that sometimes travels up to 2 hours to see her, Dr. Andrews knows her patients’ time is valuable, and that convenience has a remarkable effect on boosting patient satisfaction.

“For me, it’s patients first, but as a byproduct, our production has gone up because patients talk and potential patients want the same thing—a crown in the same day," she said. "They don’t want to go back for multiple visits. So, it has built my practice.”

Key Takeaways

CEREC Primemill mills crowns in as little as 4 minutes, enabling same-day delivery that eliminates temporaries, second appointments, and lab turnaround time
Compatible with crowns, bridges, onlays, inlays, veneers, abutments, and surgical guides — making it a single-unit investment that covers the full restorative workflow
Same-day dentistry is a practice-building differentiator — Dr. Andrews reports patient referrals and production growth driven directly by the convenience of single-visit restorations