Why Do I Need A Crown?

Why is it sometimes necessary to put a crown on a tooth?

It’s necessary to put a crown on a tooth for several reasons. First, a crown is a restoration that we use to strengthen the tooth. A crown is needed when there’s insufficient tooth structure to fill the tooth, when the tooth is broken, fractured, worn, or when it’s partially destroyed by decay. 

The crowns that we use are metal-free, all porcelain, and blend in beautifully with the tooth structure, so I don’t have to remove as much tooth structure, so they’re nice and a conservative approach for building that tooth structure back. And because they’re metal-free, there’s no concern about metal toxicities, and our crowns are the ultimate in strength, beauty, and longevity.

The porcelain varieties that we use for our crowns are the strongest materials we put in a patient’s mouth. They wear beautifully. They blend in beautifully with the adjacent teeth. Nobody can tell they’re even crowns, so we’ve come a long way since the old metal or porcelain-over-metal crowns. The primary purpose of the crown is to save the tooth.

We preserve the healthy tooth structure, cover it, secure it, and make it stronger so that we don’t put the tooth at risk of fracture by putting a larger filling in there. This is a conservative approach to maintaining that tooth in place. Crowns are long-lasting restorations and will serve the patients for many years.