Porcelain Crowns

When the size of a filling exceeds a certain proportion of the tooth, the filling must be replaced with a crown. Porcelain crowns look, amazingly natural.

Dental crowns are restorations that protect damaged, cracked or broken down teeth. A crown strengthens your damaged tooth so as to preserve its functionality. Dental crowns are also commonly known as caps (because a crown sits over your existing tooth covering the entire outer surface). Crowns can be all gold, or with porcelain bonded on top of the gold. These are still the strongest and by the way look just like your natural tooth.

The most modern crowns now use materials like zirconia which are white in colour and almost as durable as the porcelain fused to gold variety. There js a drawback however as these often require more tooth substance to be removed to make room for the crown. The advantage is that the appearance is, well, there is only one word for it and that is – WOW!!!!!!!!!