Dental Crowns

What Are Dental Crowns?

Dental crowns are a versatile and effective solution for restoring damaged or weakened teeth. At Le Dentiste, we offer custom-made crowns designed to protect and enhance your smile, ensuring both durability and aesthetics.

A dental crown is a cap that covers a damaged tooth, restoring its shape, size, strength, and appearance. Crowns are often used to protect a tooth after a root canal, cover a large filling, or improve the appearance of a discoloured or misshapen tooth.

Types of dental crowns

Metal crowns

Dental technicians use several metals to make dental crowns, including gold, palladium, nickel and chromium. Metal crowns rarely chip or break, last the longest in terms of wear and only require a small amount of enamel removal. They can also withstand biting and chewing forces.

Porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns

Porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns combine the durability of metal and the natural look of porcelain. Dentists can match these crowns to the shade of your own teeth.

Pressed ceramic crowns

A pressed ceramic crown has a hard inner core. It’s similar to a PFM, but the core is ceramic instead of metal. To make this inner core, a technician melts and presses ceramic in an oven at a very high temperature. Next, they add multiple layers of porcelain. Like all-porcelain crowns, pressed ceramic crowns mimic the translucency of natural tooth enamel.

All-ceramic or porcelain crowns

All ceramic or porcelain crowns mimic the appearance of tooth enamel more than any other crown type. They’re also a good choice if you have metal allergies.

Same-day dental crowns

Many dentists use CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and manufacturing) technology to create crowns in their office while you wait. This software allows your dentist to take digital dental impressions of your teeth, and then use those impressions to design a custom crown. Once your dentist designs your crown, they’ll send the image files to an on-site milling machine. The machine will craft your new crown from a solid block of ceramic.

All-resin crowns

Dental crowns made out of resin are generally less expensive than other types of crowns. But they’re fragile and more likely to break compared to porcelain-fused-to-metal (PFM) crowns.

At Le Dentiste, we offer reliable and beautiful dental crowns for restoring single or multiple teeth.

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Why Choose Our Dental Crowns?

Customised Fit

Each crown is meticulously crafted to fit your tooth perfectly, ensuring a comfortable and precise fit that blends seamlessly with your natural teeth.

Durable Materials

We use high-quality materials like porcelain, ceramic, and metal to create crowns that are both strong and aesthetically pleasing.

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Aesthetics

Our crowns are designed to match the color and shape of your natural teeth, enhancing your smile’s appearance.