Dental Crowns

Dental crown also is known as dental cap that encases the whole tooth to cover or protect damaged or severely chipped teeth. Crowns looks like natural teeth. You and your crowns dentist or prosthodontist can pick the shape, size and color shades of your crown teeth restorations.

Crowns resolve dental problems such restoring large cavities, severe fractures, cracked or chipped teeth. A dental crown can be fitted over dental implant to replace a missing tooth. It is used in full mouth rehabilitation cases to rebuild worn-out teeth from teeth grinding. It re-shapes uneven, mishap teeth and align mildly crooked teeth. A weaken tooth from after root canal treatment can be protected from crowns to protect the tooth from breakage. For severe teeth discoloration from dental fluorosis or darked colored teeth, crowns instead of veneers may be used to improve smile esthetics. Crowns within dental bridges to replace missing gaps.

Type of Dental Crowns
There are basically several types of dental crowns:
- Metal Crowns : made from metal alloys
- Porcelain-fused-to Metal Crowns (PFM) : made of porcelain on the outer surface and metal alloy on the inner surface.
- All Ceramic Crowns : most commonly opted, all ceramic crowns looks natural look and does not cause black margins issues by metal alloy crowns
- Composite Crowns : composite crowns are normally temporary crowns.
PFM and all ceramic crowns are made at the dental laboratory. Costs of dental is based on material chosen.