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Crowns

​A dental crown is like a helmet that goes over the tooth and protects the underlying tooth structure - providing a predictable long term restoration for a weakened tooth.

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What Types Of Crowns Are There?

12/7/2016

 
​There are either metal or metal free crowns.
​Metal Crowns have a core of metal onto which a tooth coloured porcelain is fired.
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These crowns typically are held in place by a slight taper in the preparation design, and a cement. Preparations of these types of crowns mean tooth structure is removed all the way to the gum margin that sometimes results in the strongest part of the tooth been weakened.
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Porcelain Fused to metal crown - Front tooth
Metal Free Crowns are made up of porcelain (IPS e.max Ceram)
IPS e.max is a ceramic material which combines strength and beauty unlike any other dental restorative. With the new bonding systems available, porcelain can be reliably bonded to the tooth structure, allowing a more conservative approach to preparing the crown without having to cut down to the gum level. These types of crowns are also known as overlays - and your dentist may use these two terms interchangeably - crown/overlay.
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Metal free Overlay (L) and Crown (R)

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