Dental crowns offer the ideal solution when damage or flaws affect the appearance or function of your teeth. Your Lewisburg, PA, dentists, Drs. Dustin and Brooke Snyder of Brookpark Dental may recommend a crown if you have one of these problems:
A weak or cracked tooth
A crack, no matter how small, increases the risk that a drinking glass will shatter if bumped or dropped. The same thing can happen if your tooth is cracked or weak. One day, you may take a bite of food and discover that part of your tooth has broken off. Fortunately, crowns can protect and strengthen fragile teeth. The hollow restorations fit over the tops of teeth, encasing them on all four sides. Crowns are cemented onto your teeth and don't move when you bite or chew.
A broken tooth
Whether your tooth broke when you bit into an apple or you took an elbow to the face during a soccer game, a crown can restore the height and width of your broken tooth. Your restoration will be created using an impression of your mouth to ensure that the crown fits well and looks natural.
Let the Lewisburg dental office know right away if you break a tooth. Broken teeth can be quite painful and are considered a dental emergency.
Appearance concerns
Crowns are also an excellent choice if you don't like the way a tooth looks. They can keep discolored teeth out of sight, lengthen teeth that are too short or even change the shape of a tooth. Crowns make crooked, twisted, or oddly shaped teeth look perfectly uniform.
A missing tooth
Dental crowns are used in bridges and dental implants to restore missing teeth. Bridges consist of one or two artificial teeth called pontics suspended between two crowns. A dental implant is a titanium post that replaces your tooth roots. The post bonds to your jawbone and is connected to a dental crown to complete the restoration of your missing tooth.
Strengthen, repair, or transform your smile with dental crowns! Call your dentists in Lewisburg, PA, Drs. Dustin and Brooke Snyder of Brookpark Dental, at (570) 522-1234 to schedule your appointment.