Dental Crowns
When a tooth is weakened either by decay or stress, it is best to fully restore the functionality of the damaged tooth with a dental crown.
Custom built to enclose the weakened tooth; it becomes the new surface of that tooth. With a cosmetic dentist office located in Long Beach, California, porcelain crown expert, Carson Dental and Cosmetic Centre, assures foremost quality on crown build-ups with the excellence including the look, the material, and the matching of other teeth in color and natural appearance.
Porcelain crowns are frequently chosen to repair a tooth with excessive decay, teeth that need structural support after a root canal, or teeth that are broken or cracked. And crowns are sometimes are used to simply resolve the appearance of a tooth. As long as the root structure is still intact, it is usually possible to place a crown on the existing tooth to save that tooth.
Three kinds of crowns are offered today by dentists: porcelain (also called dental ceramic or resin), gold (or other metal ceramic) or ceramic veneer over gold.
Fillings for Dental Cavities
At some point or other in our lives, most of us wind up with a cavity. In most cases, a cavity calls for your dentist to remove the decay and to fill in the tooth area that was removed. There have been a number of advances in the field over the past few years, so if you’re one of the lucky ones and haven’t had a cavity in a while, you should read up on what is available today so that you understand the choices available to you.