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Dental Crown and Bridges
Dental Crown and Bridges
Crowns for Montmorency & Greensborough
Dental Crowns and Bridges
Need help to repair, strengthen or replace a tooth? Talk to our dentists about a dental crown or dental bridge we are in Melbourne’s Eastern suburbs in the heart of Montmorency
Dental crowns and bridges can restore the original look, feel and function of teeth. The Montmorency Dental Group of Melbourne, are your professional dental team. We use the latest scanning technology to design custom crowns and bridges for all chipped, cracked, weakened or missing teeth, with no uncomfortable moulds needed. We can match your restorations to your natural tooth colour for a seamless professional finish.
What is a dental crown?
A crown is also known as a “cap”, put simply it is a tooth-shaped covering that is placed over the damaged tooth. The crown is placed on the specially prepared tooth much like a glove over your finger. It can be used in both restorative dentistry procedures and for cosmetic dentistry treatments.
When do you need a dental crown?
Crowns are recommended when damage to a person’s teeth is extreme and there is no longer enough tooth structure left to place a filling. Crowns are commonly used to:
- Strengthen teeth, including teeth that have had root canal treatment
- Improve the appearance of teeth
- Restore heavily filled or worn teeth
- Restore a tooth back to an optimal bite
- Protect distressed or fractured teeth
- Accommodate the attachment of a fixed bridge
- Restore an implant placed to replace a missing tooth or teeth
- Protecting distressed or damaged teeth
Types of Ceramic Crowns Available:
Ceramic crowns are made from porcelain-based materials. These porcelain crowns are the most popular as they are able to provide a more natural tooth colour and are more suitable for people with metal allergies. Ceramic crowns are widely used for front teeth.
Porcelain Crowns have many benefits they:
- Do not show a dark line around the gum area
- Don’t become discoloured or chalky in appearance over time
- Are quite often mistaken for real teeth making them again a popular choice
- Able to match the strength, function and esthetics of natural teeth
Unlike some conventional crowns, these natural looking crowns:
- Covers a tooth in order to strengthen the tooth and restore it to its normal shape and size.
- Crowns also improve the appearance of your smile
Crowns are frequently Recommended when the tooth is:
- rebuilding a chipped, cracked or broken tooth
- restoring a tooth worn down by grinding
- replacing an old filling
- protecting a weak tooth
- covering a stained, discoloured or misshapen tooth
- straightening or lengthening teeth
- strengthening a tooth following a root canal treatment
- supporting a dental bridge on either side
- repairing tooth damage that's too severe for a white filling
- covering a dental implant
Other Metal based Crowns are:
- Gold alloys- Gold alloy crown contains a mix of several metals, making it available to withstand daily biting and chewing force. It is also difficult to be worn down.
- Base metal alloys
- Porcelain-fused- to-metal:
Dental Bridges
A dental bridge is a device used to replace missing teeth. A bridge attaches artificial teeth to adjacent teeth named abutment teeth.
Fixed bridges are applied by either placing crowns on the abutment teeth or by bonding the artificial teeth directly to your adjacent teeth.
When would I need a Dental Bridge?
Your teeth play an important role not just in your appearance, but in speech, chewing and also maintaining proper alignment of other teeth. Teeth are designed to complement each other. Unusual forces and stresses are placed on neighbouring teeth when a tooth is lost or missing causing a number of concerning dental disorders.
Some common problems with missing teeth may include:
- Adjacent teeth drifting and shifting
- Teeth in the opposite dental arch of your mouth can move out of its socket known also as an over eruption
- Loss of a back tooth can cause your mouth to sink and your face to look older
- Potential food traps
- Increased risk of decay of neighbouring teeth
- Further loss of tooth space
- Acceleration of gum disease
- Jaw joint degeneration commonly know as TMJ
- Jaw muscle problems
If a missing tooth is not replaced, surrounding teeth will eventually show signs of more stress and strain as more pressure is placed on them. This stress and strain will also be felt in the jaw joint.
What are the benefits of Bridgework? Dental Bridge vs Implants
Getting a dental bridge is both a restorative and cosmetic dental treatment. It is just one of the treatments available to aid in fixing missing teeth. A Dental Bridge is an alternative to Dental Implants. Depending on the individuals circumstance or situation this can be a more cost-effective way to replace a missing tooth.
Bridge treatment reverses the negative effects of missing teeth in many situations such as:
- Restores and maintains the natural bite of your teeth
- Stops unnatural stresses placed on other teeth
- Places opposing teeth in their proper place
- Prevents shifting and drifting of adjacent teeth
- Discourages further dental decay and periodontal disease
- Enhances your smile, speech and chewing function
Bridgework is a long-term solution that replaces lost teeth, supports remaining teeth and helps you maintain optimum dental health.
If you are considering a dental bridge or dental implants as solutions to fix your smile and replace missing teeth we are happy to help and would recommend an initial consultation to assess your situation and discuss with you all your options. Call the Montmorency Dental Group Today on 03 9431 4431
or book online to schedule an appointment.