In short:
Dental crown, often called a cap – a tooth-shaped restoration that is placed over the entire tooth that is:
- Severely decayed
- Broken
- Supports a part of the dental bridge
- Worn down
- Misshapened/discolored
- Needs cosmetic or functional modification
To put it simply the need for the crown exist when there is no adequate amount of tooth structure exist to support a filling restoration and/or existing filling is very large. So what crown does it goes over the affected tooth and seals off whatever left of of it.
In Details:
A crown procedure involves two appointments.
At first one you going to have your tooth anesthetized, if necessary, and prepared – reduce in size three dimensionally, to receive a crown. After that we will take an impression of the tooth and if it satisfactory we fabricate a temporary crown on prepared tooth to protect the tooth. It is VERY important to keep a temporary crown on.
Post op instruction for the temp crown. HTML Link:
Post-op Instructions for a Temporary Crown
At the next appointment we will anesthetize your tooth, if necessary,
remove the temporary crown and try a new crown on. We will check the fit, contacts, bite and if it passes our and you rexamination it will be cemented on the permanent cement.
Post op instruction for the permanent crown.
Post-op Instructions for a Permanent Crown