Porcelain Crowns

Our professional dentists take special care with crowns & bridges and when you need that perfect smile, Atlas Park Dental can provide the best care available. We specialize in restorative dentistry to ensure your optimal oral health and aesthetics.

What are Crowns?

Crowns are tooth-shaped caps which fit over your teeth. Crowns can be used over teeth with large heavily filled, blackened or root-filled teeth. They can also be used cosmetically to improve the appearance of your front teeth. Your dentist can tell you which of your teeth would best be protected by crowns before problems develop. Crowns provide strong, attractive, long term protection for your mouth.

They are usually made of porcelain, and the porcelain “tooth” may have a gold or metal core for added strength and aesthetics is a zirconia crown. Where a natural appearance is not essential (e.g. at the back of your mouth), a gold or other metal crown may be used.

How are Crowns Fitted?

First your dentist will reduce the size of the existing filling and tooth to make room for the new crown, and then take a mould which is sent to a dental technician. Sometimes the filling in the tooth to be crowned is completely removed to check for decay and to rebuild the tooth for increased strength, possibly using porcelain fillings. Your dentist will fit a temporary crown to cover your tooth until the permanent crown has been made by a dental technician. Once your permanent crown is ready, your dentist will check the fit and appearance before cementing it in place.

What are Bridges?

A bridge is an artificial tooth supported by the teeth on either side of the space. Your dentist prepares your teeth on either side of the gap, and takes a mould which is sent to a dental technician. The dental technician makes the complete structure, using porcelain (for appearance) and a metal core (for strength).

Your dentist then places the bridge into your mouth. Bonded bridges that do not require shaping of the neighbouring teeth are sometimes used.

Stronger materials are sometimes necessary for bridges used in back teeth. Your dentist may use an all-metal, gold bridge for this. Alternatively, if multiple teeth are missing in an area, partial dentures could also be a solution.

A bridge is a long term, very attractive way of helping you fill the gap. We ensure that any necessary preliminary treatments, such as a root canal procedure or Root Canal Retreatment, are completed to provide a stable foundation for your bridge.

Questions? Call us at (718) 894-2110 or Contact Us and we will be happy to answer your questions and schedule an appointment at our dental clinic in Glendale.