Dental Injury? Save Your Teeth and Preserve Your Smile with Dental Crown Treatment

Dental injuries can occur even when you’re careful with your teeth. An unforeseen auto collision or slip and fall can result in dental trauma, leaving you with chipped, cracked, or broken teeth. Your teeth can also sustain damage from untreated decay. Prompt treatment can help save damaged teeth to avoid having them removed. At Canyon Crossing Dental in Ivins, Utah, we use dental crowns to repair and restore damaged teeth.

Here’s what you should know about dental crowns for teeth.

Dental Crown Uses

Dental bonding or veneers can often repair minor chips or cracks in your tooth. These treatments conceal the damage to enhance your smile’s appearance. Fractured or broken teeth need a more durable restoration to repair their fragile structure. That’s where dental crowns come in.

Crowns are metal, ceramic, or porcelain caps that can be placed over damaged teeth to strengthen their structure. Crowning a compromised tooth keeps it from crumbling. Once the crown is in place, you can use your tooth like normal. A dental crown can make a fractured or broken tooth healthy and whole again.

Dental crowns have a wide range of uses as a restorative treatment. In addition to restoring damaged teeth, your Ivins dentist, Dr. Susan Baker, may recommend a crown to:

Repair a decayed tooth when the cavity is too large for a dental filling
Reinforce a fragile tooth after root canal therapy
Improve the appearance of a misshapen or irregular tooth
Support a dental bridge
Replace a missing tooth as part of implant treatment

Crowning a damaged tooth eliminates painful chewing, protects its fragile structure, and restores its function and beauty. If the root of your tooth is intact and the tooth can be repaired, crowning your tooth can save it from extraction.

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Types of Crowns

Crowns can be made from metal, porcelain, ceramic or zirconia, or a combination of these. Dr. Baker can place dental crowns on the front or back teeth to restore their usefulness. Porcelain, ceramic, and zirconia crowns make great choices for front teeth as they closely resemble your natural tooth enamel coloring. The crowns will blend seamlessly with your smile to restore its radiant appearance. Metal crowns are more resilient, so we may recommend them for back teeth used primarily for chewing.

Caring for Dental Crowns

Dental crowns are easy to care for as all they require is regular brushing, flossing, and routine dental cleanings to retain their health and beauty. There’s no need for special solutions or treatment to keep your crown in good shape. Porcelain crowns have a lifespan of 15+ years, making them a worthy investment to restore oral health. They’re also resistant to stains and decay. To extend the lifespan of your crown, we recommend avoiding chewing on pencils, pens, ice, or extremely hard foods.

Crowns for Teeth Near Me

Contact Dr. Susan Baker from Canyon Crossing Dental in Ivins, UT, at (435) 344-4445 to learn more about our dental crown treatments.

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Dr. Susan Baker,

With a BS in Biology and Psychology from Syracuse University, Dr. Susan Baker earned her DDS from The Ohio State University College of Dentistry. She completed advanced training through a General Practice Residency at the VA Medical Center in Washington, DC. Dr. Baker owned and operated a successful Cosmetic and Implant Restoration Practice in Rockville, Maryland, for nearly 20 years and was voted one of “Washington’s Top Dentists” in the Tri-state area by her peers. After founding Snow Canyon Dental in Utah, she now runs Canyon Crossing Dental in St. George, where she continues to provide exceptional care.

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