Dr. Wooten's crowns have proven to last a very long time, sometimes over two decades. With proper home care and routine check ups, your dental crown can maintain its form and function for a very long time.

Preparing and placing a crown will require two visits with Dr. Wooten. During the first, Dr. Wooten will prepare the tooth for the crown placement, find your perfect shade, and fit a temporary crown. After one to three weeks, you will return for the permanent placement of the crown.

Crowns are excellent for strengthening teeth that have been broken, weakened by decay, excessively worn, or have an extra large filling. They can also be used to create a dazzling smile. Crowns are made to match your natural enamel color and offer a great option for covering discolored teeth and metal fillings and in the same stroke enhancing the beauty of your smile. Crowns are also used to cover and protect root canal teeth.

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Properly cared for crowns should last for many years. Your dentist will be able to tell you how long the crown may be expected to last.

A dental crown sits on top of a broken, chipped or discolored tooth. Dental crowns can also be used to cover teeth with large fillings and not much tooth left. Dental bridges cross from a healthy tooth to a healthy tooth, covering the space left when a tooth has been pulled. It bridges the gap and provides stability while allowing you to bite and chew normally.

Longevity varies from person to person depending on oral habits like clenching and grinding, how clean you keep your teeth and gums, and the PH of your saliva. We do our best to deliver high-quality treatment that will last many years.

We now have studies spanning a 20-year period demonstrating over a 95 % success rate for dental implants. With proper care and regular dental visits, your smile can maintain its form and function for a very long time.

Discomfort or sensitivity. Your newly crowned tooth may be sensitive immediately after the procedure as the anesthesia begins to wear off. If the tooth that has been crowned still has a nerve in it, you may experience some heat and cold sensitivity. Your dentist may recommend that you brush your teeth with toothpaste designed for sensitive teeth. Chipped crown. Crowns made of all porcelain can sometimes chip.

Whereas a filling covers only a portion of the tooth, a dental crown completely encases the visible area of the tooth, creating a brand new outer surface for your tooth.

Although unlikely, occasionally a dental crown will pop off, in which case the crown must be replaced immediately, due to tooth sensitivity and aesthetic appearance. In the case that this happens, please call your dentist immediately.

Minimise the use of the side of your mouth with the temporary crown. Shift the bulk of your chewing to the other side of your mouth. Avoid sticky and chewy foods (e.g. chewing gum, caramel) which have the potential of grabbing and pulling off the crown. Slide flossing material out-rather than lifting out-when cleaning your teeth. Lifting the floss, out as you normally would, might pull off the temporary crown.

Dental bonding lasts about five to ten years. At that time, the process may have to be repeated as plaque and other stains may have caused the tooth to lose its shine.

soon as the extent of the dental treatment is known, you will get a time-plan together with the cost estimate as well as all further necessary information. The timeline may be influenced by factors that cannot be foreseen (e.g.: non-foresseable, but necessary root treatments may cause a longer treatment). Possible inflammations in the oral cavity or paradontosis have to be treated before because dentures cannot be inserted before these have healed.

The actual placement of an implant is relatively quick and easy. One implant can usually be placed in about an hour. Several implants might require two or three hours. The entire process to completion varies from one day to several months. The new mini- implant commonly used to secure dentures is placed and restored the same day. IT can literally be said: “Have your implants placed today and eat tonight.

This information should be provided by the plan purchaser, often your employer or union, and by the third-party payers. In order that you and the dentist may be aware of the benefits provided by a dental benefit plan, the extent of any benefits available under the plan should be clearly defined, limitations or exclusions described, and the application of deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance factors explained to you. This should be communicated in advance of treatment.