Repair Your Smile with a Preston Dental Crown

Dental crown is the best and the most aesthetic means to protect and reconstruct a damaged tooth!

Do broken, worn, or decayed teeth make you self-conscious when you smile? Dental crowns are caps that resemble the shape and overall appearance of a natural tooth, and are used to cover a natural tooth to improve its function and/or appearance. Dental crowns fit snugly over damaged teeth to enhance their structural integrity. Beautiful, life-like porcelain crowns can give you a whiter, healthier smile that you'll be ecstatic to share.

When dental crowns are cemented into place, they fully enclose the part of the tooth that can be seen at and above the gum line. A dental crown is essentially a new exterior for your teeth.

Dental crowns can help you in the following dental conditions:

• When a broken or worn tooth needs its appearance and function to be restored, dental crowns can provide a more permanent solution than fillings.

• Dental crowns can cover a tooth with a large filling, especially if there is very little tooth left to support the whole structure.

• A cracked tooth, or one that has been weakened by tooth decay, can be saved from further damage by dental porcelain crowns.

• Dental crowns can also be used to cover a tooth that is badly shaped, or has been severely discolored, to improve the overall appearance of the teeth.

• To replace missing teeth with dental implants.

Types of Dental Crowns:

Types of Crowns we use in the Clinic Regularly	Characteristics of each type of crown
Zirconium Oxide	High Strength, Fantastic Aesthetics
Full Porcelain	Medium Strength, Excellent Aesthetics
Gradia	Medium Strength, Good Aesthetics
Porcelain Fused to Metal	High Strength, Average Aesthetics

Full Porcelain crowns (Zirconium) becoming increasingly popular. Procera™ Full Porcelain Crowns are particularly recommended for front teeth as they are metal free and have the same translucence as normal teeth, giving a completely natural look to the replacement tooth.

Full Porcelain Crowns also ensure there will be no problem with the appearance of a fine dark line of metal at the base of the crown that can sometimes happen if gum recession occurs , With the strength of modern materials now used in their construction, they can also be placed anywhere in the mouth.

Gradia Crowns

Gradia is a unique light cured micro ceramic composite system for crowns, which creates an excellent aesthetic appearance compared with conventional composites.

Porcelain Fused to Metal Crowns

Porcelain fused to gold Crowns are the strongest and longest lasting Crowns because of the inherent strength advantage of a gold base. These Crowns are mainly used for back teeth restoration.

Factors affecting the price: Dental crowns:

• Type of crown. ( materials and technique used)
• Clinicians experience and expertise in the field of cosmetic dentistry.
• Any additional work that may be required e.g. Core build-up , teeth whitening . . .

Dental Crown treatment is arranged in the following steps:

• Preparation of the teeth
• Impression taking
• Construction of the crown
• Insertion of the final Crown
Short term Temporary Crowns will usually be fitted during the construction period.

Cosmetic dentists are currently using a new digital system to automatically make an instant crown. Through digital technology a 3D picture of the tooth is taken, and a crown is milled simultaneously to accurately cut the exact crown in minutes.

Using cad-cam system has several advantages. A patient can walk out of the dental surgery in one sitting with a perfectly fitted and bonded crown without having to wait for a laboratory to custom make a crown.

There is no temporary crown, no lab waiting time and only one visit to your dentist. but the main disadvantage of the Cerec technology is that they cannot be used on front teeth where an exact colour gradient and match with the existing teeth is best left to a professional laboratory, as the machine mills crowns from a block of ceramic loaded into the machine. The, colour gradient can be fully customized.

This laser technology is perfectly acceptable on the back teeth, where subtle colour variations are impossible to detect.