Crowned Teeth

If you have damaged teeth, then you will need dental crowns, which are caps, to protect them and maintain your oral health. Dental crowns are fitted on decayed, cracked or chipped teeth. Sometimes, they are applied to replace the old caps that have been damaged.

In a dental crown procedure, the dentist first makes a molded impression of your teeth which will be sent to the laboratory. This mold serves as a basis for making your permanent dental crown which will be fitted to your damaged tooth on your next visit. On the first visit, your dentist will provide you with a temporary crown to protect your tooth.

However, some dentists no longer have to provide you with a temporary dental crown on the first visit. With the advancement in technology, there is now a device which the dentist uses instead of making a molded impression of your teeth. The new computer-aided design/manufacturing technology—widely known as the CAD/CAM—is used to show a three- dimensional 3D image of your teeth. The dentist studies this image and creates a restoration by milling a ceramic block.

Apart from dental crowns, dentists Burbank, CA perform another method to replace missing teeth: dental bridges, which is also called fixed partial dentures. This method is rather an extension of the dental crown. In the procedure, the dentist covers the teeth adjacent to the missing tooth/teeth with crowns and connects them to an artificial reproduction of the missing teeth.

Another way to replace missing teeth is through dental implants in which dentists burbank make a replica of the tooth with titanium which is placed and fused into the jawbone with titanium paste. The crown is fitted on the tooth replica above the gum line. You can select from among gold, ceramic, and porcelain as materials used for crowns in dental implants.

Selecting which material to use depends on the strength requirements, the aesthetic and clinical demands, the availability of space in the jaw, and the durability of the material. This final selection will be done upon the advice of the dentists in Burbank, CA. All ceramic crowns are ideal for those who have small space available in their mouths. Gold implants provide stronger support for those who clench their teeth under stress or grind their teeth in their sleep. Porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns are long-lasting and strong for capping the teeth.