A dental crown is a structure by which your dentist can replace your damaged or broken tooth enamel.
Your dentist will pulverize the exterior surface and create a margin over which the crown will sit. The ceramic structure will displace all those teeth removed. It will look as natural as possible to cope with the aesthetic elements.
In our clinic at Alexandria, Our dentists headed by Dr.Ashraf Adam don’t only use the ceramic crowns to restore your damaged teeth. Still, they also consider ceramic crowns one of the most versatile options to change the anatomy, shape, position, and color of your tooth quickly.
Other cosmetic dental procedures may use an all-ceramic crown due to its transparency, which provides a flawless natural look to a smile. These procedures are cosmetic bonding and dental veneering.
Full-ceramic crowns are made of glass and metal-free. They are sometimes strengthened by a translucent substance such as zirconium.
Full-ceramic crowns are of high-level translucency.
The depth of color and characterization of the natural tooth is possible only with a ceramic crown.
Full-ceramic crowns don’t possess a dark margin.
Metal porcelain crowns composed of a metal substructure fused through the heat with porcelain. At the base of these crowns, there is usually a millimeter of exposed metal to avoid the gum recession and protect the porcelain. However, gum recession over time can expose this metal ring, and sometimes metal stains the gum with dark color. All of that can’t happen with full-ceramic crowns.
Full-ceramic crowns have the same resistance as metal-porcelain crowns.
There is a new type of ceramic that has more resistance than metal and is much more aesthetic. This material is zirconium.
Full-ceramic crowns follow a more conservative prepping.
With metal-porcelain crowns prepping, dentists have to remove more of your natural tooth structure to allow these crowns more space ordered toward excellent translucency.
With the full-ceramic crowns, dentists can remove less of your tooth structure due to their natural-looking color. So, fewer layers of porcelain can achieve the needed transparency.
They usually last about 15 years if you have good oral hygiene
If you have bad habits like fingernail biting, chewing ice, and teeth grinding, the life expectancy of ceramic crowns would get affected.
- It needs bonding to the existing tooth.
- It isn’t as strong as porcelain fused to metal crowns or gold crowns.