Dental Crowns Adelaide
What is a crown?
Your dental crown will be an artificial tooth modelled on the real thing. Dental crowns are most often made from strong, durable materials such as ceramic, with a specific and careful colour match to ensure that it blends seamlessly with the rest of your teeth.
What is a bridge?
Your dental crown will be an artificial tooth modelled on the real thing. Dental crowns are most often made from strong, durable materials such as ceramic, with a specific and careful colour match to ensure that it blends seamlessly with the rest of your teeth.
Do I need crowns or bridges?
Dental crowns and bridges are excellent for damaged, lost or worn-down teeth! The top five reasons to consider a crown or bridge include:
- A weakened tooth that’s at risk from splitting can be prevented and protected.
- A tooth that has become brittle after root canal treatment can be protected.
- Your chewing ability can be restored.
- A tooth is causing damaged to the rest of your smile.
- You want to prevent other teeth from shifting out of place.
For your convenience, Kent Town Dental offers extended appointment hours during the week as well as on Saturday.
What You Need to Know About Dental Crowns in Adelaide
Dental crowns offer a different level of comfort and function to Adelaide patients. They are great for covering implants, restoration of severely compromised teeth, and ultimately, improving a patient’s smile. But before opting for this procedure, it’s important to understand the basics. Dental crowns have two major classifications: traditional crowns, inlays and onlays.
To put it simply, traditional crowns will cover your entire underlying teeth, while onlays only cover a bump of your tooth and an inlay is used to fill larger holes or areas between the cusps. Onlays are ideal when a patient still has a solid tooth structure. Moreover, onlays are considered more conservative procedures compared to traditional crowns. During an onlay treatment, your dentist will reshape your tooth by removing the affected area, creating a space for crown placement. Aside from the mentioned types, dental crowns can also be made in different materials such as metal, porcelain, ceramic, gold and resin.
How to Take Care of Your Dental Crowns in Adelaide
While dental crowns in Adelaide are versatile and durable, they still need proper care to maintain their appearance and function. Regardless of how many crowns you have, following these tips can help in extending the life of your dental crowns.
- Avoid Eating Sticky and Hard Foods
Just like your natural teeth, crowns can be damaged by chewing ice, hard and overly chewy candies. Since they’re sticky, they can get trapped between your gums and crowns, weakening your crowns’ adhesion. - Wear a Night Guard
Many people are unaware that they grind and clench their teeth while sleeping. While this shouldn’t cause any serious problems, it can cause damage to your dental crowns. So if you want to ensure your crowns are safe, wear a nightguard during your sleep. - Stop Your Bad Habits
Do you have biting mannerisms? Biting fingernails, pencils or any hard object and opening bottle caps using your teeth can break your dental crowns.
When to Consult Our Dentist for Dental Crown Installation in Adelaide
In many cases, patients are unfamiliar with the best time to consider the installation of dental crowns in Adelaide. So if you’re unsure, here are some indications that you require one
- Cracked Tooth
When you notice your tooth is at risk of splitting, dental crown installation is the quickest and most efficient solution. It will help save your original teeth and maintain their function. - Brittle Tooth
After a root canal treatment, one of the side effects it can cause is the brittleness of teeth. This is due to the process it involves, as it requires removing a significant amount of the tooth to remove the cavity, causing a weaker tooth structure. - Tooth Gap
When a tooth is extracted, it leaves an unfilled space which can cause shifting out of other teeth. The tooth replacement is completed with a bridge, but having a dental crown will be helpful in making the tooth last longer.
Experience the difference yourself and book an appointment with us for your dental crowns in Adelaide.
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