5 Ways a Crown Can Restore Your Smile

When teeth become worn or damaged, they compromise the beauty of your smile. Damaged teeth are also more susceptible to decay or gum disease, which puts your oral health at risk. At Smile Today Dental in Glenview, Illinois, we use dental crowns to strengthen weak, worn or damaged teeth to be used like normal. Porcelain crowns on damaged front teeth will restore their original structure and beauty.   

Dental crowns are tooth-shaped caps that look and function like real teeth. They’re placed over compromised teeth to make them attractive and useful again. Crowning vulnerable teeth keeps your smile strong and intact for the future. Here are five ways a crown can be used to restore your smile:

1. Repair Worn or Damaged Teeth

Teeth wear down naturally after years and years of extensive use. They’re also prone to accidental injury, putting you at risk of chipped, cracked or broken teeth. Through dental crown treatment, Dr. Evelyn Kidonakis can repair and restore damaged teeth to make them look and function like new. Crowning a tooth conceals the damage and restores its original structure for biting and chewing. A porcelain tooth crown will also protect your tooth from additional wear and tear or damage in the future.

2. Protect Weak or Fragile Teeth

If your tooth is weak, a dental crown can keep it from fracturing or falling apart with continued use. Rather than wait for damage, Dr. Evelyn can safeguard your tooth with a crown to keep it intact. Root canal teeth are often weak due to structural damage caused by the infection. By crowning these teeth, we can reinforce their structure for future use.

3. Restore Teeth with Large Fillings

In like manner, Dr. Evelyn can crown teeth compromised by extensive decay, when normal fillings simply won’t do. Crowns can help restore teeth with large fillings to keep them safe from decay or infection in the future. With the extra support of dental crowns, teeth compromised by decay will be strong enough to sustain the forces of biting and chewing without cracking or crumbling.   

4. Anchor a Dental Bridge

Porcelain crowns can anchor a dental bridge to replace one or more lost teeth. The bridge comprises one or more artificial teeth connected to dental crowns. The crowns are placed over healthy natural teeth to hold your bridge in place. A fixed bridge will fill the gap left by missing teeth to make your smile whole again.   

5. Replace a Missing Tooth

When paired with single dental implants, crowns become replacement teeth for natural teeth that have gone missing. The crown is firmly attached to the implant (artificial tooth root) and won’t come loose. By combining crowns with implants, Dr. Evelyn can renew your smile and restore its integrity for the future. 

Porcelain Tooth Crowns Near Me

Are you in need of dental crown treatment? Contact Dr. Evelyn Kidonakis from Smile Today Dental in Glenview, IL at 847-440-3331. 

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