Restoring Teeth with Dental Crowns

When Your Dentist Recommends Dental Crowns

Dentists in The Villages may recommend dental crowns when your natural teeth need protection or replacement as the result of advanced tooth decay, cracked and missing teeth, or following a tooth extraction. Dental crowns strengthen or replace your existing tooth and improve the appearance of a decayed, damaged, or missing tooth. 

Crowns restore the shape, strength, functionality, and appearance of your original or missing tooth and the benefit of a crown is you'll be able to use your tooth to chew again without hurting the decayed or damaged area beneath the crown. Plus, you'll now have a tooth that looks as good or better than your previous tooth. Crowns protect the vulnerable soft center of your tooth, called the pulp chamber, by helping to reinforce the hard outer layer of the tooth (called the dentin), and protect the inner layer or pulp where your tooth contains nerve endings, blood vessels and connective tissue. A crown covers the fragile areas of the inner tooth and shields it from damage, while often providing a cosmetic "new tooth" appearance as well.