All you need to know about dental crowns
A dental crown is a cap that’s shaped like a tooth, placed over a tooth to cover it. Dental crowns can be made of ceramic, porcelain, resin, and stainless steel. Dentists would recommend patients to undergo a dental crown procedure for several reasons, one of which the tooth is too weak that it needs to be held together. However, some patients would ask dentists to have a crown placed over a discolored tooth for aesthetic reasons. Image source: cvitaminclinic.co.uk When cemented in place, the crowns wholly encase the entire visible part of a tooth lying at and above the gum line. Placing a dental crown will preserve a damaged tooth while protecting the dental structure of a person’s jaw. A weakened tooth that’s not encased by a crown will break up little by little until the dentist is prompted to completely remove it. Dental crowns help in limiting problems that can spill into other healthy teeth. Like a spreading flu in a person’s body, a diseased tooth—when n