At Caring Dental, you can have one or more dental crowns, which are tooth-shaped caps that our dentists can place over your tooth to encase your tooth, restore its shape and size, strength, and restore its appearance.
Dr. Ashraf Adam will cement the dental crown into place so it can fully encase the whole apparent area of your tooth that lies at and above your gum line.
When to know it is time for a dental crown?
You may need a dental crown in some cases, such as:
1. To protect and support your weak, decayed tooth from breaking.
2. For cosmetic purposes as a cosmetic modification.
3. To coat a dental implant.
4. To encase severely discolored tooth.
5. To hold a dental bridge in place.
6. To conceal and support a tooth with a large filling.
Children may need a dental crown on primary baby teeth in case of:
1. Saving a so damaged tooth from decay and can’t support a filling.
2. At the high risk of tooth decay, especially when it is difficult for a child to keep up with daily oral hygiene.
3. Declining the incidence of general anesthesia for children unable due to age, behavior, or medical situation.
First, Permanent crowns.
Stainless steel crowns
● Your dentist may use them on permanent teeth primarily as a temporary measure to protect your tooth or filling while preparing the permanent crown from another material.
● Our team of expert dentists will use this crown for patients to encase the whole tooth to protect it from more decay. Stainless steel crowns are preferable for patients’ teeth because they don’t need multiple visits to be put in place. They are more cost-effective than custom-made crowns.
Metal crowns
● Our dentist may use crowns contain metals with alloys of high gold or Platinum content or base-metal alloys (as cobalt, cobalt-chromium, or nickel-chromium alloys).
● The metal crowns are the best choice for your out-of-sight molars. They have the advantage that they withstand the biting and chewing forces well. They also last for the longest in terms of wear down and rarely chip or break.
Porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns
● Unlike metallic crowns, these crowns can be color-matched to your adjacent teeth. More wearing occurs to the opposing teeth at this crown type than the metallic or resin crowns.
● Although they look like natural teeth, the metal underlying the crown’s porcelain can appear as a dark line at the gum line.
● This crown type can be suitable for your front or back teeth and long bridges.
All-resin crowns
● They are the cheapest crown type and wear down over time.
All-ceramic or all-porcelain dental crowns
● If you are one of those who have metal allergies, this type will be the best choice for you. They can provide you better natural color match than the other types.
● This type is suitable for your front and back teeth.
Temporary crowns
● Dr. Ashraf Adam can make the temporary crowns in the clinic of an acrylic-based material or stainless steel and use them as a temporary restoration until a permanent crown is ready to wear.
Dr. Ashraf will give you some instructions to follow after crowns placement, including:
1. Avoid eating sticky foods which can pull off your crown.
2. Don’t use the side of your mouth with the temporary crown.
3. Be careful when you floss between your teeth to avoid pulling off your temporary crown.
