Description
Dr. Azari explains how a dental crown can benefit patients who have undergone root canal therapy or have experienced trauma or other damage to a tooth. A dental crown is a tooth-shaped cover that protects the tooth structure and acts as a prosthetic tooth. A dental crown can also be paired with a dental implant to replace a single missing tooth.
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Dental crowns are a prosthesis
that covers the tooth.
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It's like a jacket for the tooth
to be able to protect the tooth.
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It's a prosthetic tooth that will give
you something that's going be strong
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and effective and look like a tooth
and act like a tooth for years to come.
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Candidates for crowns,
are people who have had root canals
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for those teeth, or people who have
a lot of decay with their teeth
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and they need to have those teeth crowned
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because unfortunately, there's not
enough tooth structure remaining.
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People break their teeth constantly
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through grinding, through eating
certain things, through trauma.
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When people have these issues,
they need to have their teeth remade.
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So we utilize crowns in that capacity.
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A lot of people have
old fillings that are failing.
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When those fillings fail and they're large
enough that they can't have fillings
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to replace those old fillings,
crowns are the next step in line.
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Crowns are permanent prosthesis
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and they do last
for a certain amount of time.
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Some people have them in for many years,
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some people have them in
for a short amount of time.
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If your hygiene is up to snuff
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and you're doing
what you need to do at home,
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and you're taking care of things,
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and crowns are done properly,
then they should last for many years.
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The next option is when a tooth fails
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and it cannot be crowned
and the tooth needs to come out,
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then we like to talk about implants.
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The difference between
a crown and implant,
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the impact implant is the screw
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that replaces the root of the tooth
and the crown goes into the implant
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and it helps support that crown.
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So it gives you that whole apparatus
of what the tooth should be.