Dental Crown Treatment: A Long Term Solution

What is a Dental crown?

A Dental crown protects a heavily filled tooth from fracture by preserving the remaining tooth structure.

Advantages of Dental crowns:

• Aesthetic – improving the appearance of a tooth
• Comfort – smooth, polished surfaces
• Health – less plaque retention due to smooth and accurate shape of the crown
  

What is involved when having a dental Crown?

Normally two visits are required and the treatment is painless. The first visit involves preparation of the tooth, impression taking and fabrication of a temporary dental crown. The shade is also selected at this visit. For highly cosmetic results (e.g. a front crown) it is advisable for the patient to visit our dental laboratory for accurate colour matching. The dental crown is fitted approximately two weeks later.

What types of Dental crowns are there?

• Cosmetic All porcelain crowns.
• Porcelain bonded to metal crowns.
• Gold alloy crowns.
• Tooth coloured transitional crowns.

What affects the cost of crowns?

The clinical work by the Cosmetic dentist is always to a high standard. The cost of Dental crown treatment varies due to three main factors:

• The laboratory - A big choice for the Cosmetic dentist; ranging from busy NHS laboratories to state-of-the-art private laboratories.
• The technician - A junior, apprentice technician would make basic dental crowns; whereas a skilled, experienced technician would make better precision dental crowns finished to a high standard using a microscope.
• The materials used - The quality of the metal alloys and tooth-coloured cosmetic porcelains.
  

Summary
A high quality dental crown is like a piece of jewellery requiring meticulous clinical and dental precision. This will enable you to function in comfort and with confidence over a long period of time and also improve cosmetics

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