Crowns

A crown is a tooth-shaped cover placed over a tooth that is badly damaged or decayed. Many people call it a cap.
Crowns may be placed for several reasons. Usually the tooth has been broken or severely damaged by decay. As a result, a filling can't replace enough of the tooth or make the tooth strong enough. A crown may hold together parts of a cracked tooth. It also can be used to hold a bridge in place. Crowns can be used to improve appearance as well. They may be placed to cover misshapen or badly discolored teeth.

Crowns can be made ahead of time (prefabricated) or made to order in a laboratory. Prefabricated crowns are made of plastic or stainless steel. They can be used on a temporary basis until a permanent crown is made.

Crowns can be made of:

• All metal
• Zirconia
• Porcelain fused to metal (PFM)
• Porcelain fused to zirconia
• All ceramic

Metals include gold alloy, other alloys (palladium) or a base-metal alloy (nickel or chromium). The all-metal or PFM crowns are stronger and are better choices for back teeth than ceramic crowns. PFM and all-ceramic crowns are the same color as your natural teeth. They look just like normal teeth.

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Advanced Dentistry of Spring   
Stephen D. Glass, DDS  
Joel C. Edgar, DDS
7000 Louetta Road, Suite A
Spring, TX 77379
(281) 376-1214 
WhiterSmiles.com

Dental Crowns

A Crown Restores a Damaged Tooth

Our crowns do more than match your existing teeth, making it impossible for anyone but your dentist to tell the difference. The advanced material components of our crowns will add strength and even save a damaged tooth. If you have a broken tooth or one worn to the point that a simple filling will not restore it to full functionality, ask about our state-of-the-art crown technology.

Advanced Dentistry of Spring   
Stephen D. Glass, DDS  
Thomas C. Miller, DDS
7000 Louetta Road, Suite A
Spring, TX 77379
(281) 376-1214 
WhiterSmiles.com

One-Visit Dental Crowns

Natural-Looking Crowns Made While You Wait

There are some treatments that can only be completed in stages. In the past, that was true with placing a crown. Your dentist would prepare the tooth, take an impression and give you a temporary crown. The impression would be sent to a lab and you would wait for two weeks to return to the dentist, where he would then secure the permanent crown. Sometimes the fit wouldn't be perfect. A new impression would then go back to the lab, and you would begin the process of waiting again.

But now, that's all changed. Our doctors can reduce that two-week waiting period and the two or three office visits down to just a single visit with our new CEREC™ technology! CEREC, a computer-aided design and milling device, allows us to create a permanent crown in just a few minutes. Now, there's no more waiting for the lab and no return trips to the dentist. Patients love it!

To create the restoration, we first use a special camera to take an accurate image of the tooth. This is downloaded onto a computer screen, enabling us to design the restoration. At this point, CEREC takes over and automatically creates the new crown. Finally, we bond the new crown to the surface of the old tooth.

Without impressions or temporaries, the CEREC system allows us to repair a damaged tooth in a matter of hours with a long-lasting, aesthetic alternative to silver or plastic fillings.

Advanced Dentistry of Spring   
Stephen D. Glass, DDS  
Thomas C. Miller, DDS 
7000 Louetta Road, Suite A
Spring, TX 77379
(281) 376-1214 
WhiterSmiles.com