What is Dental Crown?

Dental crowns are sometimes called dental caps. Crowns fits over and encases the entire tooth above the gum line. Normally used to restore damaged teeth, change the shape and size of your teeth or strengthend a weakend tooth.

What is Dental Bridge?

Dental bridges consists of multiple units of crowns joined together to replace missing gaps between adjacent supporting teeth.

Your prosthodontists evaluates the color and shape of your tooth crowns and bridges based on your needs.

Types of Crowns and Bridges

Crowns and bridges are typically made of metal alloys, porcelain-fused-to-metal alloys (PFM) or all ceramics. The material selected differs in strength, after care maintenance and aesthetics:

1. Metallic crowns

stainless steel metal alloy or all gold crowns provides good strength. All gold crowns is adaptive but can be expensive and wiil be visible.

2. PFM crowns

Porcelain-fused-to-metal alloys are made in the dental laboratory with ceramic glass material on outer with varying metallic alloys on the inner sub-structure. PFM crowns is tooth-colored for natural-looking aesthetics and has inner
high strength.

3. All ceramic crowns

Like PFM crowns, all ceramic crowns are made in dental labs but do not contain any metals. This allows high asethetics whereby crowns mimics natural teeth. With advancements in today’s materials, zirconia ceramics crowns provides for good strength on both anterior and posterrior teeth.

4. Composite crowns

Temporary crowns rae normally made from composite resins that is completed at chairside during one visit. Composite crowns provides for quick restorations. It is however not as strong in comparison to ceramic crowns and may chip. The color shades of composites may also change over the long run and will need replacement.