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How Next-Day BruxZir® Crowns Are Changing the Standard of Care
Discover how Glidewell can create and deliver a restoration to your practice in less than 21 hours.
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In many areas of our lives, companies have redefined the “normal” experience by way of innovative technologies. Trillions of dollars are now spent each year shopping online, with over 50% of Amazon’s U.S. parcels arriving at your door within two days thanks to Amazon’s extensive fulfillment network. With the various streaming apps, you can watch nearly any movie, even those in theatres, from the comfort of your own couch. And companies like Apple and Samsung have transformed the core concept of the cell phone, turning it into a must-have, do-everything device.
You can likely think of countless other examples where technology has created a new standard experience for the consumer. However, you might not be able to identify a similar shift in how you experience the dental lab. Though some dentists have transformed the experience with in-office milling; for most, the doctor-lab experience has been fairly unchanged over the years, despite significant and ongoing internal innovation. You submit an impression, whether physical or digital, and several days or weeks later the restoration is returned. The lab experience has been missing its singular dramatic shift moment — until now.
Next-day crowns are now possible through Glidewell. From anywhere in the contiguous U.S., you can scan today and receive lab-made restorations tomorrow. Without changing your chairside workflow or investing in specialty equipment, you can prescribe Next-Day BruxZir® Zirconia restorations and get a precise-fitting, long-lasting crown or bridge made and delivered to your practice in less than 21 hours.
What is Next-Day BruxZir? (And What’s Included?)
The Next-Day BruxZir Service gets you the same lab-made BruxZir Zirconia restorations you know and trust — only faster. Using proprietary systems only available at Glidewell — including CrownAI™, scalable robotics and machine vision — we can design, fabricate, QC and return a monolithic zirconia crown or bridge to your office in less than 21 hours. But speed is not the only benefit of this innovative workflow, the technologies involved also ensure a high level of quality and precision.
For an affordable flat-rate price, here’s what’s included every time you use the Next-Day BruxZir Service:
BruxZir Zirconia Restoration
With the Next-Day service, dentists can choose between BruxZir Full-Strength and BruxZir Esthetic restorations, with single-unit crowns and bridges up to 3 units available. The full-strength formulation is great for clinical situations that require the toughest of materials. The esthetic version is designed for cases that demand a combination of beauty and strength.
Free Overnight Shipping
We’ve partnered with FedEx to ensure your case arrives on time — at no added cost to you. Every Next-Day BruxZir case includes FedEx Priority Overnight® shipping, with most cases arriving before 10:30 a.m. the day after you submit your prescription.
Lifetime Warranty
With over a decade of clinical validation and more than 39 million happy patients, dentists have come to associate the BruxZir name with consistent and lasting performance. Even so, Glidewell takes reassurance to the next level by covering every Next-Day BruxZir case with a free lifetime warranty. Should you ever experience a problem, Glidewell will remake the case for free.
When to Use Next-Day BruxZir?
The Next-Day BruxZir Service sets a new standard for speed, providing you with a solution for both unexpected challenges and everyday convenience.
Here are some of the great opportunities where the Next-Day BruxZir Service can help you outshine the competition:
Dental Emergencies and Save-the-Day Cases
Dental emergencies happen. Temporaries regularly fall off. Old PFMs fail. Patients chip or crack their teeth unexpectantly. With overnight crown delivery, you’re equipped to respond quickly — helping patients get back to normal with minimal disruption. There are also situations that are less critical to your patients’ health, but deeply important to your patients’ lives: such as weddings, last-minute vacations and family celebrations. With the Next-Day BruxZir Service, you can ensure no “Big Days” are missed.
Last-Minute Schedule Changes
Today’s patients lead busy lives, always on the go thanks to demanding responsibilities at work and with their families. Recent studies show that nearly 10% of dental appointments are missed, with no-shows and last-minute cancellations ranking as the primary factors keeping practices from having full schedules.1,2 Next-Day BruxZir crowns & bridges provide greater flexibility for you and your patients. With cases returned to your office in less than 21 hours, you have much more ability to accommodate shifting appointments and schedules.
Boosting Case Acceptance
When patients know they won’t have a prolonged treatment process, they’re more likely to move forward with your recommended treatment plan. Next-Day BruxZir gives you a solution to provide results sooner.
The Ultimate Convenience
Next-Day BruxZir Crowns are great for more than just emergencies. They’re a technology-forward position for your practice, giving you the ability to schedule appointments in a way that’s extremely patient-friendly. Should your patient need a crown by tomorrow, with the Next-Day BruxZir Service that’s possible — without any big investments required by you. As patient sentiments evolve toward expecting more and more services “on-demand,” Next-Day BruxZir crowns & bridges separate you from the competition. No more waiting five days or two weeks between appointments for routine restorative care. With Next-Day BruxZir, your patient can have a brand-new crown in less than 21 hours.
The New Standard of Care
Doctors who are using the Next-Day BruxZir Service are telling Glidewell that they love it, and that it’s making a big impact on their patients and staff.
Dr. Ronald Tracy of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, said, “I find it amazing, being over 3,000 miles from Glidewell, that I can send the scan and the crown is back at 10 the next morning. And it looks great, and it fits, and the patients are happy and my whole staff is happy.”
Clinicians are also saying that they find the results and quality of the Next-Day BruxZir Service to be better than the results they get from their local labs.
The convenience of scanning a patient and having a finished crown ready to seat in less than 21 hours enables dentists to redefine the standard of care.
Now that in-lab working time can be measured in hours, not days, the patient experience of receiving a lab-made crown is substantially faster than ever before. Routine restorative care no longer must be a multi-week process. This enhanced experience is in line with what patients experience almost everywhere outside of dentistry, and satisfies the consumer need for fast, predictable service. And best of all, if you’re already scanning, it doesn’t require any change in your chairside protocol. For a low flat-rate per-unit cost, you can start prescribing Next-Day BruxZir crowns today and start seating tomorrow.
How to Submit Your Next-Day BruxZir Case
It is important to include the words “Next-Day BruxZir” in the digital prescription form’s notes section."
To start your Next-Day BruxZir case, you can submit a digital impression directly from your intraoral scanning system or through the Glidewell My Account customer portal. For step-by-step guidance for your specific scanner, see the “How It Works” section on the Next-Day BruxZir page. Glidewell accepts scans directly from all intraoral scan systems.
Regardless of which scan system you use, it is important to include the words “Next-Day BruxZir” in the digital prescription form’s notes section.
The cut-off time for Next-Day BruxZir submissions is 2 p.m., regardless of your time zone. Once you’ve ordered your case, the lab will then verify all information, manufacture and ship out the restoration the same day — with the case arriving back to your practice before 10:30 a.m. the following business day.
How Glidewell Does It
In 2009, Glidewell changed dentistry forever by making monolithic zirconia restorations available to dentists across the U.S. Practically overnight, the industry switched from PFMs being the standard, with BruxZir Zirconia and its monolithic cousins becoming the go-to for routine restorative care.
In the years since, Glidewell has never stopped innovating. This pioneering spirit has led to continuous advancements for the BruxZir brand, with notable improvements to esthetics — with no compromise in performance — having made BruxZir restorations usable anywhere in the mouth.
The majority of advancements to the BruxZir brand, however, have been behind the scenes. The tools and systems used to fabricate a BruxZir crown today would be practically unrecognizable even 15 years ago, with artificial intelligence, machine vision and hands-free automation used for every case. For Glidewell, these systems mean greater control of every phase of the fabrication process. For the dentist, the benefit of this tech-forward workflow is enhanced speed and quality, plus consistent pricing. In fact, dentists who submit a digital impression today can prescribe a BruxZir Full-Strength crown for cheaper than the original 2009 price.
The Next-Day BruxZir Service is the latest culmination of these advancements. Glidewell has aligned the phases of fabrication such that the lab can create a BruxZir crown or bridge in just a few short hours, with design, milling, finishing and QC all aided by proprietary artificial intelligence for uplifted speed and quality.
In the near term, Glidewell’s Next-Day Service is limited to BruxZir crowns and bridges, but will be extended to cover other services in the future, revolutionizing the lab experience further.
How Do Next-Day Crowns Compare to “Normal” Lab Crowns?
Glidewell’s Next-Day BruxZir crowns are identical in every way to our everyday BruxZir crowns except for one — they’re delivered to you faster. The Next-Day BruxZir Service uses the same proven BruxZir Zirconia material, features the same American-made quality and is backed by the same BruxZir Lifetime Warranty. The real difference is that they’re sent through a proprietary workflow that accelerates the manufacturing and shipping process, without any sacrifices in quality.
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