1. What is Dental Crown or Dental Cap ?
Crowns are used most commonly to entirely cover or "cap" a damaged tooth or cover an implant. In most cases it given after treating a tooth with root canal therapy or fractured tooth.
2. What is Dental Bridge ?
Dental Bridges are used most commonly to replace a missing tooth by taking support from adjacent teeth.
Point to remember here is while we prepare adjacent teeth, we are actually removing enamel layer which is protecting pulp along with dentin, so teeth may become sensitive after reduction from all sides.
avoid eating too cold or too hot food stuff till we cement your crown.
3. How much time is needed to make a crown ?
1 - Your dentist will first prepare your tooth with help of air-roter which usually takes an hour then
2 - Dental impression is taken with help of dental custom trays and alginate / rubber base silicone impression materials and then
3 - Sent to dental lab for processing
4 - It usually takes a weeks time to manufacture a dental crown or dental bridge from the dental lab.
5 - after getting delivery from dental lab we can schedule appointment for cementation of dental crown, which usually takes 30 mins of time
6 - some times another appointment may be needed to adjust occlusal height of new tooth and maintaining occlusal balance.
4. What is the cost of Dental Crown and Dental Bridge ?
Cost of crown varies in each clinic and there is no MRP for it, but basic points deciding cost can be enumerates as -
1 - Experience of dentist
2 - Dental Lab technitians handskills
3 - Infrastructure of dental lab ( CAD-CAM )
4 - Time given to make it
5 - Choice of material used to manufacture ( Metal, PFM, Ceramic )
6 - Technique of making dental crowns ( Layering or monolithic )
7 - Warranty status ( provided or not )
Note - you may check cost on bottom of current page.
5. What are different crown materials ? and which is best suitable for me ?
basically they are divided as metal based and metal free
Metal based crowns are -
A - all metal crown
B - PFM - Porcelain fused to metal crown
Metal free crowns are -
A - Zirconia / all ceramic crowns
B - Bruxur / Monolithic crown ( High stress resistant )
C - Zirconia + E max ( anterior esthetic cases )
so best suitable crowns are all ceramic / zirconia crown but are usually costly.
6. What is Lifespan of Dental Crowns and Dental Bridges ?
Average lifespan is about 5 to 15 years, but if prepared properly and maintained well they can stay for more than 30 years even lifelong.