Time, decay, and injury can change your smile, leaving gaps that impact your self-esteem and your oral health, too. At Astra Dental in the North York/Toronto, ON, area, your dentists create realistic bridges and dental crowns to fill out and strengthen your smile beautifully. Find out how Dr. Ana Santana Guerrero can help you.
What is a dental crown?
A crown is a jacket of high-grade ceramic crafted to support and beautify a failing tooth. Made according to your exact dentition, a crown fits right over your tooth, providing increased chewing power and accurate dental bite.
Crowns save compromised teeth from unnecessary extraction and the bone and gum tissue loss that happens afterward. To determine your tooth's fitness for this reliable restoration, your dentist will examine and X-ray your tooth in her North York/ Toronto, ON office.
Teeth that are abscessed may require a root canal procedure before receiving a crown. Decayed, broken, or heavily restored teeth need careful reshaping and oral impressions before the dentist designs and places a dental crown.
What is a dental bridge?
Bridgework replaces missing teeth. If you have a smile gap consisting of one, two, or even more adjacent missing teeth, a conventional bridge may be your restorative solution. Natural-looking prosthetic teeth (pontics) attach to neighboring natural teeth (abutments) with realistic porcelain crowns.
Bridgework affords patients these advantages:
- It fills the smile gap.
- You speak and eat normally.
- Your remaining natural teeth are supported and maintain their positions and proper bite.
- Bridgework is easy to care for and requires no denture soaks or adhesives, reports News-Medical.net.
Additionally, you may have the option of an implant-supported bridge. Titanium implants, shaped like threaded screws, anchor a multi-tooth bridge right to the jaw bone. As you use your new teeth, the bond strengthens, your oral function increases, and your bone mass remains dense.
Find out more about crowns and bridges
At Astra Dental in North York/Toronto, ON, your dentists will guide you through the crown and bridge process comfortably. We want you to love your smile again. Call Dr. Ana Santana Guerrero for a consultation at (416) 640-0070.
