Jon Basile, a certified dental technician and owner of Dental Dynamics Inc. in Westbrook, designs a crown using computer software. The finished design will be sent to a milling machine, which will carve the crown out of zirconia.

Basile layers enamel porcelain on a dental crown.

Basile layers enamel porcelain on a dental crown he created.

Dental crowns that were designed digitally with computer software, then carved precisely with an automated milling machine, await finishing at Dental Dynamics Inc. in Westbrook.