Dental Crowns and Bridges

Crowns and bridges can help restore health, function, and appearance. Actually that's a really great question. So you have a couple of different ways that that can help.

If you have cracked teeth, there's obviously something functionally going on. It could be too much force from a habit, too much force from grinding or clenching, or trauma, but certainly we want to restore that function. Crowns and bridges, if you have cracked teeth or things are breaking, we can restore that to look and feel like a natural tooth.

We've done it to the point where people can't even figure out which tooth it is. They'll say, I think it's this tooth. No, no, that's your natural tooth.

The one we did the crown is for is right next to it. So like, oh, I knew it was up here somewhere, you know, so, uh, but appearance, uh, we've done it for people that have had, uh, large fillings that those are starting to break down and they can actually see the filling and they don't like that. And then we can go into either something like an inlay, an onlay or a crown, just depending on whatever is needed.

And it makes it just disappear. So that's now we're back to aesthetics and function at the same time. Health.

Uh, I've seen crowns that have been made by a lab, but they have really rough edges or open edges. And the gums just sit there and they look really raw. They look raw.

They look angry and they're getting a lot of food tucked in there. Some people say, I'll ask them is there's one spot that you get food stuck. Is it right here? And they'll say, yes.

And I say, okay, it's because this crown is not doing you any good. It's, it's rough. It's got an open edge.

It's just like, uh, I do fishing. So it's kind of like a fish hook has that barb on it. The fish isn't going to be able to come off.

Right? So if the food gets in there, it gets stuck on that rough edge and it's not going to come out. So, uh, I've had a lot of people, we do their crowns and they, we remove a crown that was, that was poorly sealed or poorly, um, contoured. We put a new crown on there.

The gum is healthy. It's beautiful. The patient says, I don't get food stuck there anymore.

They're happier with their teeth. It's more comfortable crowns. They are really great.

I know, um, a lot of people worry about how much tooth is left, but with our system, I don't have to work with the tooth much. Um, we can be very minimally invasive, particularly when we do the crown same day. So I don't need, uh, to get into the tooth a lot to have you wear a temporary that has to hold on to so much tooth.

We can be very minimally invasive cause we're bonding the tooth. So when we bonded to the tooth immediately that same day, we've saved a ton of teeth. So I really love crowns that we can do them same day.

The way that we do them, I get them back better than I would from a lab. So my team, we've trained them. They, they do all the care in between.

And then when we just bring the crown to the room, same day, patients are just thrilled. So no temporary crowns that cause sensitivity. They don't pop off.

They don't smell weird. Your gums are healthy and it's just done. You can go right back to your life and you can eat as soon as you like.

It's as done as it ever will be. So I actually really like crowns and inlays and all nice that they help a ton.