How Crowns Work to Save Damaged Teeth

To benefit from all your smile has to offer, you need healthy, functional, and esthetically pleasing teeth. Tooth damage from decay or injury can compromise your smile’s health, function, and aesthetics.  At Whiting Dental, your Mesa, Arizona dentists, Dr. Ben Whiting can counter the effects of damaged teeth with dental crowns to give you a new smile you’ll love. Covering a damaged tooth with a crown can restore its shape, function, and appearance. A severely damaged tooth can even be saved from extraction with the help of dental crowns.     

How Crowns Work to Save Compromised Teeth

A tooth compromised by decay or injury is bound to be painful. This limits how your tooth can be used for biting and chewing. Left unchecked, the damage could worsen, putting you at risk of losing that tooth. Dental crowns are tooth-shaped caps that can be fitted over damaged teeth for protection and support and to restore their usefulness. If your tooth is fractured or broken, a crown will conceal the damage and renew your tooth’s structure. Crowns serve multiple purposes as a restorative dental procedure, making them an effective tool in your dentist’s arsenal for improving the quality of your teeth.

Here are a few ways a dental crown can save the integrity of your smile.

• Repair and restore damaged teeth – Tooth damage can result from age, wear and tear, unaddressed decay, or dental trauma. A chipped, cracked, or broken tooth is not only an eyesore but can also impair your ability to bite and chew. By getting a crown on your tooth, you can curtail the damage and make your tooth useful again. 
• Fortify weak, worn, or fragile teeth – Over time, your teeth are bound to suffer wear and tear, leaving them in a worn or fragile state. With constant use, a fragile tooth is prone to chipping, cracking, or crumbling, prompting your dentist to have it removed. Crowning your tooth will help keep it intact to avoid extraction. Your tooth will have extra strength for biting and chewing, becoming fully functional again.
• Provide care for a severely decayed tooth – We may recommend crowning a tooth with extensive decay that can’t be addressed with an ordinary filling to save it from extraction. Whenever possible, saving a permanent natural tooth is always a better choice than extraction. We’ll first care for your tooth by removing the decay and then covering it with a crown to protect it from future infection. 
• Support a tooth that’s had a root canal – Root canals help restore teeth compromised by a severe oral infection that has damaged the tooth’s pulp. After a root canal procedure, a crown can be placed over the tooth to fortify its compromised structure. Crowning a root canal tooth eliminates sensitivity and pain, keeps future decay at bay, and restores your tooth’s functionality. 

New Crowns for Teeth Near Me

Learn more about dental crowns and how they can benefit you by contacting Dr. Ben Whiting from Whiting Dental in Mesa, AZ, at (480) 870-4400.

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