Dental Crown Fitting and Placement
An emergency visit necessitated by a severely cracked or chipped tooth may lead to dental crown replacement., The emergency dentist will place a temporary dental crown in your mouth, and order the creation of a permanent, custom-made crown. When the custom crown is ready, the dentist will fit it, replacing the temporary crown.
What Is A Dental Crown?
A dental crown, also known as a cap, is a dental treatment that replaces the outermost part of the enamel with fresh material and spans the entire tooth. It is shaped and sized exactly like a natural tooth, and it comes into normal contact with the neighboring teeth, enabling you to chew food appropriately without “favoring” damaged or painful dentition. In functionality, a crown is extremely similar to a natural tooth. Depending on a specific crown’s composition, it can even appear as real as natural dentition.
How Do Crowns Function?
Crowns allow you to eat and speak normally, while also giving you an overall beautiful oral appearance. Dentists like the experienced professionals at Smile Design Dentistry can use a crown to rehabilitate your damaged or compromised teeth as a consequence of trauma, decay, fracture or a host of other dental issues to assist in avoiding additional harm, and potential tooth loss or other health issues down the road.
Your dentist can advise you on the best model of crown for your situation. Porcelain-veneered zirconia, all Ceramic porcelain, porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM), and even gold alloy, or base-metal alloy crowns are several of the options that provide different materials, appearances and benefits in an area of dentistry that is constantly advancing and innovating.
Although gold alloy or other metal alloy alternatives are long-lasting and cost-effective, they will not resemble all your other dentition. Crowns made of porcelain, acrylic, or ceramic can be more evenly matched to your natural teeth, with experts singling acrylic and ceramic types for their long-lasting capabilities. Porcelain is far more susceptible to shattering and fracture than metal, yet porcelain linked to a metal casing can boost its strength while keeping a tooth-like appearance.
After consultation and deciding on a material, your dentist may eliminate any underlying decay or unstable tooth structure, and prepare your teeth for the crown using a local anesthetic. The practitioner will also create a mold or imprint of your mouth, which will be used to manufacture the new custom crown.
Some specialists offer same-day crown operations, while others send crowns to a laboratory, scheduling the procedure for setting them at a later date. If the latter is the case, your dentist may fit a temporary crown in the gap.
What Conditions Do Dental Crowns Address?
Dentists use dental crowns to restore otherwise unsalvageable teeth. They could also use them to hold dental bridges in place, as well as to cover implants. This procedure can be an extremely beneficial option for individuals who do not want to have their natural teeth extracted after incurring serious damage or fractures.
Dental crowns could be used to mitigate a variety of dental issues, including:
- Rescuing badly damaged teeth
- Managing toothaches or sensitivity
- Guarding decayed teeth
- Correcting scuffed, ruptured, compromised, or worn dentition
- Reviving damaged as well as worn-down teeth
- Improving chewing and eating capabilities
Dental crowns are a suitable option for patients with teeth that may be severely damaged cosmetically, but are otherwise healthy and do not have any periodontal issues. When you are concerned about saving your problematic tooth while adding strength and durability to your dentition at the same time, crowns can be an ideal solution.