Crowning dental work is a form of tooth restoration treatment that aims to strengthen a damaged tooth and prevent further deterioration of the tooth. However, it is also a viable option for improving the aesthetics of your teeth.
The treatment involves replacing the damaged crown of a tooth with an artificial crown made from metal, porcelain, resin, or ceramic. With the new crown, you can chew food normally and prevent bacteria from accessing the tooth pulp.
However, not all crown issues require crowning dental work. Thus, here are three of the most common signs that you need dental crown replacement.
Broken Tooth
A broken or chipped tooth often gets accompanied by severe pain. The pain results from a crack or the dent in the tooth exposing the nerves located in the tooth pulp. Thus, the extreme sensitivity of the nerve endings in the tooth causes severe pain.
If the broken/cracked tooth is too damaged to support a filling, a dentist will recommend you undergo crowning dental work. When an artificial dental crown gets installed on the tooth, it seals up the damaged tooth, blocking the nerve endings from exposure. Thus, crowning dental work also alleviates the tooth's extreme sensitivity and prevents bacteria from accessing the tooth's inner pulp.
A Recent Root Canal
A root canal gets recommended when your tooth's inner pulp gets infected, leading to the infection spreading to the tooth's nerves. A dentist will remove the decayed/infected parts of the inner pulp during the root canal and then apply a filling to seal the tooth cavers left behind.
However, the exposed tooth filling is not strong enough to support chewing hard foods. As a result, if you chew hard foods, the exposed filling will get damaged and subsequently fall off. Hence, you may require several additional tooth fillings to replace the damaged filling.
Thus, immediately after a root canal, it is advisable to get crowning dental work done to seal in the filling. Once the dental crown gets installed, it prevents the filling from getting damaged while chewing.
Stained and Misshaped Teeth
Some of the most embarrassing dental conditions that lower a person's self-esteem and ability to smile include stained and misshaped teeth. Stained teeth usually occur due to excessive smoking or drinking water with high mineral content. On the other hand, a misshaped tooth could result from chipping, excessive grinding (bruxism), or naturally deterorating. Nonetheless, crowing dental work can help solve the problem.
Getting an artificial crown installed on top of the stained or misshaped tooth covers up the blemish and provides the aesthetic appeal of a perfect tooth. Thus, if teeth whitening remedies are not working for you, or you don't want to remove the misshaped tooth and get a dental implant, crowning dental work is your best solution.
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