Crowns

When the tooth is too deteriorated or broken down, or contact points are too wide to get a complete join with filling alone, then a crown is best. Crowns are multi-purpose, though their main objective is to protect your tooth.

Some reasons you may need a crown include:

• Following root canal treatment.
• Following a cavity.
• To cover a dental implant.
• To protect a cracked, broken or weak tooth.
• When a filling just isn’t substantial enough.
• To cover a discoloured tooth.

A crown can last for between 5 – 15+ years, and like everything, there are factors that determine how many years it can stay natural-looking and robust:

Diet

• The more teeth-staining food and drink you consume, the faster the crown will stain.
• What your crown is made of. Some materials are more stain-prone than others, some are stronger, and others are more aesthetic in nature.

Oral hygiene routine

A good oral hygiene routine at home will protect the integrity of the material used to make your crown and stop any remaining tooth structure underneath it from becoming decayed.

Your habits

If you do grind or clench your teeth at night, it is best to make sure you protect your teeth and restorations by wearing a mouth guard or retainers.

The dentist

The experience of the dentist and partner laboratory can play a huge part in how well your crown performs over the years. Fortunately, you’re in great hands at Artistry Dental.

Dr Arti is well-known for her consideration of how aesthetics meets restorative dentistry. She partners with an experienced dental laboratory that shares her motivation for excellence and the creation of not merely ‘crowns’, but new teeth that will stay with patients for years to come.

Crowns give you back a lot of lost functionality. Once they’re fitted in place using an ultra-strong dental cement, you will find it so much easier to bite down and chew your food.

If your crown is addressing a tooth that’s most visible when you smile, the effect on your confidence can’t be understated; so many patients feel much more confident about smiling when they don’t have an unsightly tooth distracting from their appearance.

A very strong dental cement is used to fix your crown in place, so there’s no risk of it falling out, unless:

• You bite on foreign objects.
• You don’t take care of your oral hygiene daily.
• You don’t come to the dentist and hygienist for routine appointments to maintain your crown (and your teeth).
• You don’t wear your night guard or retainers at night.