5 Ways Dental Crowns Can Save Your Smile

Your smile is worth saving at all costs! That’s why your Albion, New York, dentist prefers to repair and restore compromised teeth rather than having them removed. At Silsby Family Dental, Dr. Evan Silsby offers dental crowns for teeth compromised by age, decay, or accidental injury. Crowns are hollow caps or coverings fitted over vulnerable teeth to protect and renew their structure. Crowning a compromised tooth keeps it safe from harm, restores its appearance, and makes it useful again.

Here are five ways a dental crown can be used to save your smile:

1. Protecting Worn Teeth

Your tooth enamel acts as a protective barrier to keep bacteria from infecting the inner layers of your tooth and damaging its nerves. Worn or eroded tooth enamel puts your teeth at risk of infection and cavities. You can’t regrow tooth enamel once it’s lost. Dr. Silsby can, however, replace worn enamel with a dental crown. Crowning an eroded or worn tooth gives it a new outer structure that resists infection and decay and strengthens your tooth for future use. 

2. Strengthening Weak and Fragile Teeth

Teeth can weaken over time due to age, decay, and wear and tear. Weak teeth are prone to chipping, cracking, or crumbling with continued use in their fragile state. Rather than wait for these teeth to crack or crumble, Dr. Silsby can cover them with dental crowns as a preventive measure against future damage. A tooth with root canal treatment is often topped with a crown to strengthen its weakened structure. Crowns can also help minimize tooth sensitivity, making consuming hot and cold foods and drinks easier. 

3. Repairing Fractured and Broken Teeth

Teeth that are already damaged need immediate attention to ease painful chewing and prevent further damage. For the most part, fractured and broken teeth can be repaired with dental crowns. The process of getting a dental crown starts with modifying the structure of your tooth to receive a crown. Next, Dr. Silsby will mold your tooth to create a porcelain crown for your use. As this may take a week or two, we’ll place a temporary crown over your tooth. Once your porcelain crown is ready, we’ll cement it in place permanently to restore your tooth like new.  

4. Treating Severely Decayed Teeth

When a dental filling isn’t enough to protect a tooth due to extensive decay, a crown can add extra protection and support against further infection and harm. Supported by a crown, a severely decayed tooth is less likely to fracture with continued use.

5. Replacing Missing Teeth

When paired with dental implants, dental crowns can replace missing teeth. Crowns fill the gap left by lost teeth to make your smile whole and healthy again.

Quality Crowns for Your Teeth in Albion, New York

To learn more about the benefits and uses of dental crowns in Albion, NY, contact Dr. Evan Silsby from Silsby Family Dental at (585) 589-4325.

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