Restore the structural integrity of your smile with dental crowns…

Dental Crowns are restorations that ‘cap’ over a severely decayed, damaged, discoloured or significantly weakened tooth. By placing a dental crown over a tooth where its structural integrity has been compromised we can strengthen the tooth and protect it from further damage. Besides strengthening a damaged tooth, a dental crown can also be used to improve its appearance, shape or alignment. Current generation tooth coloured Emax or Zirconia crowns can look and feel like real teeth. Crowns extend the lifespan of heavily filled (restored) teeth.

The process for a Dental Crown or “Tooth Cap”

• During the first appointment, the tooth is numbed so the tooth can be prepared for the dental crown.
• Then a mold or an impression of that preparation is made.
• Once this is done, the impression or the mold is sent to an outside lab to make the dental crown.
• In the meantime, the patient is given a temporary dental crown, which is worn for one to two weeks until the lab completes the fabrication of the original dental crown.
• During the second appointment, the actual dental crown is placed.

Classic Smiles has ground breaking Cerec technology whereby Emax single crowns and small dental bridges can be made for you on the same day. In most cases the dental crowns are sent away to be crafted in a dental laboratory. Classic Smiles also provides more traditional porcelain fused to metal and full gold dental crowns.

Old discoloured dental crowns (above)  replaced with new crowns (below).

Dr Zafiropoulos may recommend a dental crown for the following issues:

• Replace a large filling when there isn’t enough remaining tooth to properly retain a new filling
• Protect a weak tooth from fracturing
• Restore a fractured tooth
• Cover a dental implant
• Cover a discolored or poorly shaped tooth
• Cover a tooth that has had root canal treatment – a crown in such cases is the number one factor for success of root canal therapy.

With porcelain crowns, our current practice is to prefer the use of the newest E-max technology. IPS E-max is a layering ceramic that gives beautiful natural opalescence to dental crowns. It provides lifelike highly aesthetic results with true to nature light scattering and a balanced relationship between light and chroma. Wear and gloss characteristics are similar to the more traditional feldspathic veneered crowns, however the strength of E-max crowns enables us to give you a 10 year guarantee.

Do you have damaged teeth? You may need a dental crown. For any questions on dental crowns contact our cosmetic dentist in Sydney for a free consultation.