Modern medicine allows you to repair damaged or missing tooth crowns, and replace them with optimal artificial crowns. Artificial crowns for teeth may well replace human natural teeth, and their aesthetic and functional properties are no worse. So if you have any shortcomings, you can safely seek help from modern dentists.
Dental crowns are the most common and simplest type of restoration, which is made by laboratory methods, covers the visible part of the tooth and is fixed with special cement. The crown covers the desired tooth completely, unlike a filling that can restore several surfaces and no more. It is necessary to resort to the use of crowns in cases where the walls of the tooth are too thin, and the probability of their fracture is too high.
Crowns on teeth are necessary in some cases in order to:
- improve the aesthetic appearance of the tooth;
- strengthen his condition;
- restore its function;
- restore the anatomical shape of the tooth.
The restoration of the tooth with the help of the crown occurs with lightning speed. And its new “coating” automatically becomes a new surface, thereby completely returning the tooth to its original shape.
Crowns on teeth are made according to certain actions and as a result should completely imitate a normal chewing tool. In order to make a good crown, you need to choose a good dentist and visit him about three to four times. In general, as much as it will be necessary to determine the size and type of crown.
During the first visit, the dentist must prepare the tooth for the crown. That is, it, along with the adjacent gums, needs to be anesthetized, but anesthesia is indispensable here. Then you can proceed to the preparation of the tooth. It needs to be carefully grinded to reduce the size and give it a certain shape, then so that the crown fits on it as conveniently as possible and does not interrupt the closure and tight placement of a number of teeth.
The next step of the doctor should be to take casts of the jaws, in order to make a suitable crown. For such a procedure, ordinary gypsum was previously used, but now it has been replaced with modern impression masses, as they are more pleasant and convenient. A plaster model is cast in such a mold in a dental laboratory, and now it is possible to simulate a prototype of new artificial crowns on it.
Before making crowns on the teeth in the final version, you need to make trial ones. They will be needed to protect your teeth from various irritants and restore an aesthetic appearance, at least for the period until permanent crowns are made. Next, you should decide on the color of the future crown, so that it harmonizes with the rest of the teeth. The next step is trying on the metal frame of the crown, to confirm its ideal size or to refute this. And at the last visit to the tomato specialist, you will finally have permanent crowns installed.
Before installing new dental crowns in their jaw, their types must be carefully studied and the most optimal one selected. The following types of crowns:
- metal - the most proven and oldest, but far from aesthetic. These include gold crowns, sprayed and made of steel;
- ceramic - transparent ceramics imitate the natural optical properties of teeth, and this indicates a high aesthetics. Ceramic crowns do not wear off, do not absorb various dyes and do not darken;
- cermet - look like real teeth.
In the question, “which one to choose”, you need to be guided by your own preferences, as well as the recommendations of the dentist. It is the doctor who should advise the most suitable type of crown, taking into account all the important features.
Crowns on teeth have some indisputable advantages:
- aesthetics;
- strength;
- the best preservation of teeth - microbes and saliva do not penetrate under the hermetically seated crown, and caries does not develop.
Our teeth need proper and constant care, so be careful and do not forget about it under any circumstances!