Dental Crowns

1 00:00:05.480 --> 00:00:08.980 Dental crowns are a prosthesis that covers the tooth. 2 00:00:08.981 --> 00:00:12.671 It's like a jacket for the tooth to be able to protect the tooth. 3 00:00:12.930 --> 00:00:17.986 It's a prosthetic tooth that will give you something that's going be strong 4 00:00:17.987 --> 00:00:21.729 and effective and look like a tooth and act like a tooth for years to come. 5 00:00:21.730 --> 00:00:24.571 Candidates for crowns, are people who have had root canals 6 00:00:24.572 --> 00:00:28.971 for those teeth, or people who have a lot of decay with their teeth 7 00:00:28.972 --> 00:00:30.986 and they need to have those teeth crowned 8 00:00:30.987 --> 00:00:34.029 because unfortunately, there's not enough tooth structure remaining. 9 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:37.020 People break their teeth constantly 10 00:00:37.050 --> 00:00:42.129 through grinding, through eating certain things, through trauma. 11 00:00:42.650 --> 00:00:47.714 When people have these issues, they need to have their teeth remade. 12 00:00:47.930 --> 00:00:50.200 So we utilize crowns in that capacity. 13 00:00:50.370 --> 00:00:53.580 A lot of people have old fillings that are failing. 14 00:00:53.610 --> 00:00:57.620 When those fillings fail and they're large enough that they can't have fillings 15 00:00:57.650 --> 00:01:01.500 to replace those old fillings, crowns are the next step in line. 16 00:01:01.530 --> 00:01:03.466 Crowns are permanent prosthesis 17 00:01:03.486 --> 00:01:06.157 and they do last for a certain amount of time. 18 00:01:06.360 --> 00:01:08.157 Some people have them in for many years, 19 00:01:08.343 --> 00:01:10.657 some people have them in for a short amount of time. 20 00:01:10.770 --> 00:01:13.213 If your hygiene is up to snuff 21 00:01:13.214 --> 00:01:15.100 and you're doing what you need to do at home, 22 00:01:15.286 --> 00:01:16.629 and you're taking care of things, 23 00:01:16.829 --> 00:01:20.800 and crowns are done properly, then they should last for many years. 24 00:01:22.130 --> 00:01:24.957 The next option is when a tooth fails 25 00:01:24.958 --> 00:01:27.800 and it cannot be crowned and the tooth needs to come out, 26 00:01:28.170 --> 00:01:30.210 then we like to talk about implants. 27 00:01:30.240 --> 00:01:32.271 The difference between a crown and implant, 28 00:01:32.272 --> 00:01:33.786 the impact implant is the screw 29 00:01:33.787 --> 00:01:38.500 that replaces the root of the tooth and the crown goes into the implant 30 00:01:38.700 --> 00:01:40.857 and it helps support that crown. 31 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:45.471 So it gives you that whole apparatus of what the tooth should be.