Milford Dentists Explain How A Dental Crown Can Improve How Your Teeth Work

A dental crown, dental overlay or dental veneer strengthens a tooth, acting like a crash helmet to hold things together. It also restores the shape of a tooth to help with eating and/or decrease food trapping. A dental crown will also replace a worn tooth and improve the tooth’s appearance, and can be part of a dental bridge to hold a fused false tooth in place, and can be used in dental implant dentistry to replace a missing tooth. 

As Milford Dentists explain it, there are many situations where a dental crown may be a good option, for example if a tooth has a large filling. A large filling equals over 50% of the tooth being replaced by filling material, so that the remaining tooth structure is in a weakened state and vulnerable to snapping or cracking or secondary tooth decay. 

Indirect restoration is when the dentist takes a mould of the tooth either with a quick setting impression material or a digital scan of the tooth and then creates the replacement crown or veneer outside of the mouth before fitting it  When a customer decides they want a damaged tooth strengthened, reshaped or the appearance improved, the dentist will very often choose to create a crown or veneer for the tooth, or use the ‘indirect’ restoration method.

Crowns and veneers are a longer lasting solution for dental repair, replacing more of the tooth and adding more structural integrity. Other terms for ‘indirect’ restorations include inlays, onlays and bridges (which are multiple crowns in a row including a fused false tooth).

Milford Dentists also has a same day cad/cam service that can create crowns, overlays and veneers in a single day for those wanting a fast, long lasting, high quality solution and will talk their patients through their options and costs, and whether a filling or a crown is the most appropriate treatment, so for more information on tooth whitening, wisdom teeth removal and emergency dentistry please go to www.milforddentists.co.nz