What are crowns and bridges?
Dental crowns, also known as dental caps or artificial crowns, are made from materials used to repair teeth and cover them on the original teeth, preventing tooth damage, rebuilding tooth shape and occlusion function, restoring teeth to normal size, shape, and color, and extending their service life. If your teeth have ever received root canal treatment or have a large extension of filling materials, their texture will be relatively fragile, and installing crowns helps protect the remaining tooth structure.
Dental crowns can be used to improve the appearance, shape, or arrangement of damaged teeth. Therefore, when selecting dental crown cover materials, dentists will pay attention to the aesthetic requirements in addition to the tooth defect condition and required strength. The repair methods and materials vary based on the specific conditions of the tooth defect.
Densbeauty offers a variety of material options for dental crowns, including full-metal, porcelain-fused-to-metal, and full-ceramic crowns. Among them, all-ceramic dental crowns are currently one of the more popular materials, being safe, durable, aesthetic, and more. Under the refraction of light, its color, transparency, and toughness are quite similar to those of natural teeth. In addition, due to the fact that “all ceramic crowns” do not discolor the gum edges, they can also be used for tooth whitening. Therefore, they are both beautiful and natural, no matter if they are made into Crowns or bridges.
The crown treatment can only be used on healthy natural teeth. If your natural teeth are absent, you can choose dental bridge to replace the missing teeth. Dental bridge is a type of crown with a pontic attached to it that is fixed with adhesive near the missing tooth position and can remain in your mouth for a long time. Due to the fact that the dental bridge is fixed to the teeth with adhesive, its stability, support and retention are higher than that of removable dentures. When installing a dental bridge, the dentist will first adjust the healthy teeth adjacent to the missing teeth and then place the crowns on the grounded teeth. The healthy teeth in the front and back are like “bridge piers”, supporting the artificial teeth in the middle to fill the position of the missing teeth. If you are considering dental bridge treatment, there must be healthy natural teeth in front of and behind the missing tooth to provide support. Therefore, dental bridges are generally suitable for cases where only one tooth is missing. Compared to removable dentures, dental bridges can provide better biting force and do not require daily removal and cleaning, making them more convenient in daily life.
If there is more than one adjacent missing tooth, you need to consider other types of treatment, such as dental implants. Due to the different characteristics of different dental materials, our professional dental team will carefully check your dental condition and understand your needs before confirming the materials. We will choose the suitable dental material for you to create a natural dental crown like a natural tooth. If you want to know the suitable treatment option for you, please make an appointment with Densbeauty on WhatsApp immediately and have our professional dental team provide you with advice.
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