Cosmetic crowns
A Crown is a custom made restoration made to
completely cover a specially prepared tooth
Crowns are made of the following materials:
- » Gold Alloy
Crowns- for posterior teeth only
- » Tooth coloured crowns with Porcelain
on the outside (for esthetics) and metall alloy on the inside
(for strength)
- » Metal free
tooth coloured crowns with Porcelain on the outside and a
Zirconia core for strength for excellent esthetics
- » A tooth coloured Monolithic
Zirconia crown without Porcelain- for back teeth only
A Crown is indicated to restore teeth in the
following situations:
- » for a heavily decayed tooth with
little tooth structure remaining
- » when a filling breaks from a
heavily restored tooth and there is 'more filling than tooth'
remaining
- » when a large part of a tooth
fractures
- » after Root Canal Treatment of a
tooth
- » after Post and Core treatment of
a tooth