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Crowns And Bridges

Dental Crown and Bridge are fixed solution to damaged, missing and infected teeth. A crown is used when a tooth is damaged fractured or root canal. A bridge is often used to replace multiple missing teeth.

A dental crown may be required to protect a weak tooth from breakage, to restore an already broken tooth, to cover and support a tooth with a large filling, to cover misshaped or severely discoloured teeth, to cover severely attrited tooth, to cover a dental implant or to make a cosmetic modification.

The different types of crown and bridges are:

Stainless Steel crowns: These crowns are generally used as permanent crowns in children. These crowns are ideal for restorations in children as they are prefabricated and don’t require multiple visits to the dentists. They are cost-effective and usually come off along with primary teeth as they shed off to make space for permanent teeth in the oral cavity. Stainless steel crowns are often used as temporary crowns in adults, till customized crowns are fabricated.

Porcelain-fused-to-metal Crowns: PFM crowns provide the best of both worlds. They have metal’s strength and porcelain’s aesthetics. After all-ceramic, PFM crowns are the second-best in terms of providing natural tooth-like colour. However, the porcelain part of the crown does tend to chip off if subjected to heavy masticatory forces. Sometimes the metal lying underneath such crowns can be seen as a dark line, especially near the gum margin. So in our practice, we use these crowns for back teeth restoration.

Zirconium Crowns: Zirconium crown is a CAD-CAM milled all-ceramic crown that is mainly used for front and back teeth crown and bridges and as implant abutments. It has zirconia as a substructure and porcelain stacked on it for optimum aesthetics. There are many brands of this product and some have higher clinical success rates. Some of these are 3M Lava, Bruxzir, etc