When preparing for a dental crown, you must schedule two visits to our dentist in Hialeah. During your first visit, the tooth receiving the crown is examined and prepared. The dentist takes x-rays of the tooth and the surrounding bone. If you require root canal treatment, the dentist recommends you complete it before getting your dental crown.
If you don’t have any infections, the affected tooth undergoes filing from the top and sides to accommodate the dental crown. The procedure is uncomfortable, but you receive local anesthesia to ensure you experience no pain. After reshaping the tooth, the dentist takes impressions of it besides images of the tooth about and below the targeted tooth.
Your dental crown is custom created in a dental laboratory and requires approximately three weeks before you can have it over your tooth. However, the dentist provides a temporary crown to protect the prepared tooth to ensure it doesn’t sustain further damages.
Three weeks down the line, when your dental crown is ready, you revisit the dentist for final placement. Removal of the temporary crown starts the procedure, after which the dentist checks the permanent crown for color and fit. All things being acceptable, the dentist provides local anesthesia again to numb the tooth and bonds the permanent crown permanently over the affected tooth.
The dental crown you receive restores the smile and functionality of the affected tooth. So long as you care for the dental crown with proper dental hygiene and regular visits to dentists for checkups, you can expect the restoration to remain with you for over a decade without needing further replacements. Besides proving beneficial for your smile, the restoration also prevents frequent visits to emergency dentists making inquiries of how you can repair the affected tooth or receive treatments for infections.