Crown
If a tooth is so badly damaged due to tooth decay or accident that a filling is insufficient, an artificial crown can build up the tooth and restore its function. The tooth must be ground all around, then a dental crown of gold, non-precious metal or ceramic is glued. It stabilizes the tooth and ensures that the forces occurring during chewing are evenly distributed. Crowns are a very durable and stable restoration and can protect even severely damaged teeth from further damage for years to come.
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Dental crown costs
Crowns can be made from a variety of materials that directly affect the cost. The statutory health insurance companies take over part of the costs for the standard care, a metal casting crown made of non-precious metal and for crowns in the front or canine area and the one-sided tooth-colored veneer. However, if you want a higher quality supply, such as gold or ceramic, you have to bear the additional costs for material and laboratory itself.
All-ceramic crowns are much more expensive to produce and therefore more expensive, but in addition to the perfect aesthetics have the advantage that they are optimally tolerated by allergy sufferers because they are completely metal-free.
Treatment procedure for dental crowns
The dentist will first prepare the affected tooth under local anesthesia, d. H. grind all the way down under the gum line. Thereafter, an impression or intra-oral scan of the jaw is made, which serves the dental laboratory as a template for the creation of the individual crown. At the same time, the dentist determines the exact tooth color of the surrounding teeth with veneer or ceramic crowns, so that the new crown fits into your row of teeth optically unobtrusively.
For the transitional period you will receive a temporary restoration with a plastic crown to protect the prepared tooth. Meanwhile, the crown will be made and tested in the laboratory exactly to your dentist‘s specifications before being sent to the practice. The doctor again checks the correct fit, and if everything fits, the crown is glued to the prepared tooth with a special cement.
Durability of dental crowns
Crowns are considered a very long-lasting care and can last decades with good care. It is important to clean the crown margin and the interstices thoroughly with dental floss or interdental brushes to avoid caries on the crown margin. In addition, you should check your teeth at least once a year and carry out a professional tooth cleaning. This tartar and superficial discoloration are removed and the teeth are cleaned even in hard to reach places.
crown species
Dental crowns can be differentiated according to size and extent:
- A partial crown does not cover the entire tooth, but z. For example, only the caries destroyed occlusal surface, while a full crown covers and protects the entire visible area of the tooth.
Another distinguishing feature is the material from which the crown is made:
- A Vollgusskrone Made of metal (gold, non-precious metal alloy) is relatively easy to manufacture, since it must be cast and not milled out of a solid workpiece (all-ceramic). It is mainly used in the molars and is particularly break resistant and durable, but also clearly recognizable when laughing or talking.
- veneered are used in the field of vision (incisors and canines, anterior molars). They are also made of metal and then provided on the visible areas with a tooth-colored veneer. This is covered with a fired ceramic layer.
- Ceramic crowns are completely metal-free and therefore hypoallergenic. They consist of a high-performance ceramic (zirconium oxide), which is slightly thicker than metal cast crowns, which is why the dentist needs to grind the tooth a bit more. For this reason, all-ceramic crowns can not be distinguished optically from real teeth and can be produced exactly in the desired tooth color.
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