Damaged Tooth? Restore Its Usefulness with a Dental Crown

It’s hard to live with a cracked or broken tooth. The pain alone would make it hard to bite and chew. Chewing could even cause more damage to your tooth. Dr. Tiffany Fritz can repair and restore a damaged tooth to full use through dental crown treatment. At Piney Creek Family Dentistry, we offer crowns for teeth to our patients in Centennial, Colorado, and nearby communities.  

How Crowns are Used 

Crowns are custom-made, tooth-colored caps placed over weak, worn teeth or teeth that have sustained structural damage. Otherwise, these teeth could start to deteriorate from wear and tear. Crowning a compromised tooth strengthens its structure, curtails future damage, and makes it functional again. A dental crown can make your damaged tooth look and function like new. Cosmetic dental crowns can be used to renew your smile’s appearance for aesthetic reasons.

Dr. Fritz may recommend crowning a tooth that’s:

• Weak, worn, or fragile and prone to breakage 
• Cracked or broken due to an accident
• Too decayed to be treated with a filling
• Irregular or misshapen
• Permanently stained or discolored 

By fixing dental issues and improving your smile’s appearance, crowns offer both functional and aesthetic oral health benefits. 

Types of Crowns

There are numerous types of crowns to choose from to repair and restore damaged teeth. Some of the most common are:

• All porcelain or all ceramic crowns
• Gold crowns
• Porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns and
• Zirconia crowns

Gold and porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns are the strongest and generally recommended for back teeth used primarily for chewing. The natural tooth-colored appearance of ceramic, porcelain, and zirconia crowns makes them a favorite for teeth that are highly visible when you smile. 

Dental crowns are easy to care for; they need regular brushing, flossing, and routine cleaning to stay in good shape. Your crown can give you ten or more years of quality use with proper care. 

Dental Crowns Near Me

Learn more about dental crowns and how they can benefit you by contacting Dr. Tiffany Fritz from Piney Creek Family Dentistry, Centennial, CO, at (303) 562-1051. 

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