Placing a Gold Crown
When you need a tooth restoration, sometimes the best thing for you is a gold crown. Because a gold crown has to be precision-made in a dental laboratory, you may have to make two or more trips to your Houston Cosmetic Dentist. However, the outcome will be more than worth the wait.
We have to get things ready first before we begin. For starters, we numb the area around the tooth to be crowned in order to make you comfortable. This is because we believe in pain-free dentistry and see no point in making patients suffer or feel afraid.
We also protect your throat with a device called a rubber dam. The rubber dam blocks the back of the mouth and keeps any dental debris that results from our procedures from falling into your air passageway or esophagus. Once the rubber dam is in place, we then use a handpiece to remove any and all tooth decay we discover.
We then shape the tooth. This has to be done in order to create a secure foundation on which the gold crown can be placed. If the foundation is correct, the crowned tooth will be at the same level of surrounding teeth and work in perfect alignment with them.
Once we are finished shaping the tooth we take impressions of your teeth and use these impressions to build a replica of your mouth. This replica is then sent to the laboratory, where technicians use it as a model to custom-craft a gold crown that will precisely fit your tooth and bite.
This is not going to be done overnight, of course. The lab works with many Houston cosmetic dentists and always has several dental crowns of varying materials to build. This is why we place a temporary crown on your tooth at the end of the first visit. This temporary is very important because it protects all the work we have put into cleaning and reshaping the tooth in our office.
When the lab notifies us that your gold crown is ready, we call you back to the office. During your next appointment, we take out your temporary crown and place your gold crown over your tooth without cementing it. We do this because we need to test it first.
We check to make sure that the top of the crown is even with the tops of surrounding teeth. We also check to make sure that the newly crowned tooth lines up with other teeth. If any of these things do not check out as intended, we may need to request a new crown from the lab.
However, most of the time things work out the first time, and we can go ahead and cement the crown in place.
Gold has always been a prized substance for its many unique, PRACTICAL uses. In dentistry, gold crown offers some remarkable advantages still valued even in this day of advanced technology.
We have to get things ready first before we begin. For starters, we numb the area around the tooth to be crowned in order to make you comfortable. This is because we believe in pain-free dentistry and see no point in making patients suffer or feel afraid.
We also protect your throat with a device called a rubber dam. The rubber dam blocks the back of the mouth and keeps any dental debris that results from our procedures from falling into your air passageway or esophagus. Once the rubber dam is in place, we then use a handpiece to remove any and all tooth decay we discover.
We then shape the tooth. This has to be done in order to create a secure foundation on which the gold crown can be placed. If the foundation is correct, the crowned tooth will be at the same level of surrounding teeth and work in perfect alignment with them.
Once we are finished shaping the tooth we take impressions of your teeth and use these impressions to build a replica of your mouth. This replica is then sent to the laboratory, where technicians use it as a model to custom-craft a gold crown that will precisely fit your tooth and bite.
This is not going to be done overnight, of course. The lab works with many Houston cosmetic dentists and always has several dental crowns of varying materials to build. This is why we place a temporary crown on your tooth at the end of the first visit. This temporary is very important because it protects all the work we have put into cleaning and reshaping the tooth in our office.
When the lab notifies us that your gold crown is ready, we call you back to the office. During your next appointment, we take out your temporary crown and place your gold crown over your tooth without cementing it. We do this because we need to test it first.
We check to make sure that the top of the crown is even with the tops of surrounding teeth. We also check to make sure that the newly crowned tooth lines up with other teeth. If any of these things do not check out as intended, we may need to request a new crown from the lab.
However, most of the time things work out the first time, and we can go ahead and cement the crown in place.
Gold has always been a prized substance for its many unique, PRACTICAL uses. In dentistry, gold crown offers some remarkable advantages still valued even in this day of advanced technology.
- Gold is easy on opposing teeth when you chew.
- Gold is very strong.
- Do not let its softness fool you. It can handle heavy bite pressure.
- Gold is durable and long lasting.
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