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Dental Crowns
Our custom-crafted dental crowns can repair a wide range of damage including severe decay, fractures, and wear. This full-coverage restoration can improve the look of your smile and strengthen the tooth and protect it against further damage. With good care, crowns will allow you to enjoy a strong, beautiful smile for years to come.
Dental Crowns in Santa Rosa
Crowns Can Make Your Teeth More Beautiful
Dental crowns are used to restore a tooth to its original size, shape and function after damage or decay, preventing further damage or shifting. We can also design dental crowns to improve aesthetics and create a smile with ideal proportions, harmony, and brightness.
Our Advanced Techniques Deliver a Perfect Fit
Our dental office in Santa Rosa uses the best technology and dental labs to ensure your crown is a perfect fit that functions and feels great with the rest of your teeth. With digital scanning and dental design technology, we can custom craft dental crowns with a perfect fit.
Crowns Are A Durable and Long-Lasting Solution
With proper care like regular dental appointments, brushing and flossing, crowns are extremely durable and can last over a decade in most cases. You’ll be able to enjoy your gorgeous smile and comfortable function for years to come.
What Can Dental Crowns Do for Your Smile?
Dental crowns are a useful restorative dentistry treatment to protect a weak tooth, repair a broken tooth, and treat decay or injuries that can’t be fixed with a filling. A crown is also sometimes called a dental cap because it completely covers and wraps around the entire visible portion of a tooth, capping it to make it stronger and protect it from further damage.
Your dentist might recommend a dental crown for a variety of reasons, including:
- to repair a severely damaged or decayed tooth that cannot be filled
- to improve the appearance of damaged teeth
- to hold a dental bridge in place
- to restore a worn-down or broken tooth
- to cover a dental implant
- to cover and support a tooth with a large restoration where there isn’t a lot of tooth structure left
- to protect a tooth after a root canal therapy procedure
- as part of a cosmetic dentistry smile makeover
Crowns are one solution to these problems, but not the only one. Dr. McCormick and Dr. Singh will consult with you about your individual situation and help you decide on the best solution for your dental needs.
What Are the Different Types of Crowns?
Crowns can be made from a variety of materials, like metal alloys, zirconia, porcelain fused to metal (PFM crown), porcelain fused to zirconia, and all-ceramic crown. Each offers different strengths. For instance, all-metal or porcelain and a metal crown are durable but don’t look natural, making them better for back teeth which often use the most force when biting and chewing.
An all-ceramic crown or a porcelain crown are good choices for front teeth, because they can be customized to the exact same color as your natural teeth and blend in unnoticeably.
Modern ceramics are extremely strong and durable, making them an ideal choice for molars as well. In fact, zirconia crowns last as long as metal crowns, or even longer. Their lifespan is three times as long as PFM crowns, with far superior aesthetics.
How We Make Dental Crowns
For any type of crown, we begin by taking a careful mold of the tooth in need of the crown, called an impression. We then send the mold to an excellent area dental lab we have been partnering with for many years. During this time, we will place a temporary crown to protect the prepared tooth. Shortly after, the permanent crown will arrive at our office and we can place it on the affected tooth.
The procedure of getting a crown is straightforward. After the damaged tooth has been carefully prepared, we will simply place the tooth-like covering over your natural tooth. The dental cap will then support the remaining tooth structure and provide a cover to protect the natural tooth from cavities, tooth decay, or further damage.
Caring for Crowns
Dental crowns can last for many years. Maintaining good oral hygiene is important to help your dental crown last as long as possible. Our staff will instruct you on the best way to care for your crown. It’s important that you are involved in every part of the process of getting crowns in Santa Rosa, so that you are well-informed about your dental work and how to take care of it properly.
Meet the Santa Rosa Dentists Dedicated to Giving Your Smile the Personalized Care It Deserves
About Dr. Andrew McCormick:
Dr. Andrew T. McCormick is a native Californian originally from Monterey County.
In January 2010, he became an accredited member of AACD, one of 350 dentists worldwide, after extensive work to raise his level of expertise in cosmetic and rehabilitative dentistry.
Voted Best Dentist in Santa Rosa by Readers of Bohemian Magazine
1 of 350 Dentists Worldwide Accredited with the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry
About Dr. Austin Griffith:
Dr. Austin Griffith, DDS, is a highly skilled Santa Rosa dentist with over 13 years
practicing general dentistry. He has expertise in restorative dentistry, prosthodontics, oral surgery, TMD/TMJ treatment, and emergency care. He has also experience with Invisalign® clear aligners, implant restoration, and sleep dentistry. With a patient-centered approach, he prioritizes building trust, using humor to ease anxieties, and educating patients about their options.
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