6 Ways Dental Crowns Can Improve the Quality of Your Smile

Dental crowns play a major role in restorative dentistry. These hollow, tooth-shaped “caps” keep broken and severely decayed teeth intact so they can continue to be used. Crowns also relieve the pain and discomfort of chewing with a fractured or broken tooth. If you have a severely decayed or damaged tooth, Dr. Robert Evelyn and Dr. Wayne Harper from Ocala Smiles in Ocala, Florida, encourage you to seek dental crown treatment.

Here are six ways new crowns for teeth can improve the quality of your smile: 

1. Repair Damaged Teeth  

Factors like age, wear and tear, decay, trauma, and bruxism can damage teeth, causing them to become worn, chipped, cracked, or broken. If your tooth is beyond repair, your Ocala, FL dentist will have it removed. Most of the time, however, damaged teeth can be repaired and restored with crown treatment. Crowning a damaged tooth restores its structure, appearance, and functionality for the future.    

2. Restore Ability to Bite & Chew 

A cracked or broken tooth can cause pain when you bite and chew. Cracks in teeth make them more sensitive to hot and cold drinks and foods. A porcelain or porcelain-fused-to-metal crown will provide instant pain relief and restore full chewing power. Your broken tooth will be protected from sensitivity, future decay, and additional damage. In short, it will be restored like new. 

3. Improve Smile’s Aesthetics 

Cosmetic crowns can improve your smile’s aesthetics by concealing tooth stains or reshaping malformed or odd-sized teeth to give it a uniform appearance. Your dentist in Ocala, FL, can use crowns to alter the shape and size of short, thin, long, or pointy teeth so they blend in with your smile, making it more aesthetically pleasing.

4. Complete Broken Smiles

Crowns can be used with other restorative treatments to make broken smiles whole again. When paired with single dental implants, crowns become replacement teeth for natural teeth that have gone missing. Dental crowns can also be used to support fixed dental bridges. A bridge fills the gap left by one or more missing teeth to make your smile complete. It’s anchored by dental crowns and placed on healthy teeth on either end of the bridge.

5. Fortify Root Canal Teeth 

A root canal is a treatment used to stop bacterial infection within the pulp of your tooth. To eliminate the infection, the diseased pulp has to be removed. This saves your tooth, but leaves it hollow and brittle. Crowning your root canal tooth fortifies its brittle structure to keep it from fracturing with future use.

6. Rescue Teeth from Extraction

Repairing damaged teeth with dental crowns saves them from extraction and restores their usefulness for the future. Saving teeth preserves your oral health and keeps your natural smile intact. 

Dental Crowns Near Me

Interested in scheduling dental crown treatment? Call 352-867-7181 to speak with Dr. Robert Evelyn or Dr. Wayne Harper from Ocala Smiles in Ocala, FL .

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