There are many different reasons why dental crowns have been around for so long, and why they’ve helped so many different people save their smiles from different levels of tooth damage. One of these reasons is the highly effective design and purpose of a dental crown. Made to completely cap your tooth’s structure, a dental crown can successfully address a wide range of issues with your tooth, repairing structural damage or restoring its healthy size, shape, and appearance. Today, we examine a few specific things that the right dental crown can do to restore or replace your natural tooth structure.

Improve how your tooth looks

One of the more significant ways in which dental crowns have advanced over the years is in the specific materials used to create them. For example, many of today’s dental crowns are crafted from a highly lifelike material that closely mimics the color, shade, and shine of your healthy, natural tooth structure. Material such as lifelike dental porcelain can create a restoration that not only fortifies and preserves your healthy tooth structure, but also blends in almost indistinguishably with the rest of your smile. This can make a porcelain dental crown a good option for improving the appearance of a tooth that has serious cosmetic blemishes, such as discoloration, chips, cracks, and more.

Make your tooth strong again

The main purpose of a dental crown is most often to repair a tooth that’s experienced some level of damage to its structure. This can include a fracture in its crown, or the wearing down of its structure. In some cases, it can mean a piece broken off of the tooth’s crown. In each case, the damage can make your tooth weaker and less able to sustain your bite pressure, and the damage can grow worse the longer it’s left untreated. In addition to being made from lifelike material such as porcelain, dental crowns are also designed specifically to help a tooth regain its strength and integrity after it’s been structurally compromised.

Replace a tooth that’s lost or extracted

In traditional treatments that involve replacing a lost tooth, the role of dental crowns has typically been to support a custom-made dental bridge, which includes a lifelike replacement for the lost tooth. The dental crowns are bonded to the teeth that are nearest to the lost one, supporting the replacement as you bite and chew with it. However, increasingly more patients who experience tooth loss are benefiting from more lifelike dental crowns that are supported by dental implant posts. A dental implant is designed to mimic a healthy, natural tooth root, and once placed within your jawbone structure, it can support your custom-made dental crown with more lifelike comfort and stability.

Learn what modern dental crowns can do

Modern dental crowns offer a higher level of realism than previous versions, which allows them to do more for your tooth and smile than you might expect. To learn more, schedule a consultation by calling the Dental Centre of Conroe in Conroe, TX, today at (936) 441-4600. We serve patients from Conroe and all neighboring communities.