Dental Crowns
Dental crowns are a dental treatment that, when placed on the tooth, covers the part of the tooth that is above the gumline. It’s a tooth shaped cap designed to cover an existing tooth to restore its shape, size, strength, or to enhance the tooth’s overall appearance.
Your dentist might prescribe a dental crown to fix a tooth that’s already broken down or worn severly; to protect a weak tooth to keep it from breaking, to keep together portions of a cracked or cracking tooth, to cover a tooth with a large filling when there’s no longer much of a tooth left, to cover a dental implant, and to hide severely misshapen or discolored teeth.
Preparing your teeth for a dental crown will take two visits to your dentist. In the first visit, your dentist will examine your teeth and determine the need for a dental crown. In the second visit, he or she will install the permanent crown.