Children Crowns
What are Dental Crowns?
Dental crowns are a stainless-steel material or zirconia which is ceramic or composite that is in the shape of a tooth. These tooth shaped crowns act as caps for a damaged tooth.
Why a children’s crown needed?
A dental crown is used to restore the tooth shape and help to protect it from further bacteria and cavities. Following a pulp therapy or in the presence of extensive cavity in a tooth.
When your Children Need a Dental Crown?
A dental crown will be used to help protect the tooth and the smile, when your children conducting a pulp therapy or dealing with a particularly severe cavity, the tooth’s shaped will be drilled and shaved down because of the cavity. Therefore, this leaves the tooth misshapen.
A crown will help cap the tooth, to help restore its original shape while also helping protect it from further bacteria and cavities.
Why your Children Need a Dental Crown?
Some quick reasons why your children would need a crown:
- Protects the tooth from further decay
- Ensures a proper smile by maintaining proper tooth shape
- Maintains proper tooth shape for eating
Types of Pediatric Dental Crowns at Appolonia
Strip Crowns
Strip crowns are celluloid crown forms that are the most effective for use in pediatric patients with extensive caries in anterior teeth.
These are commonly used crown forms filled with composite and bonded on the tooth.
Stainless-steel Dental Crowns
A stainless-steel crown is the standard tooth restoration done by a Pediatric Dentist. If your child presents with a large cavity, or many teeth with cavities, it is much smarter to restore the cavities with stainless steel crowns, as opposed to white fillings.
Stainless steel crowns cover the teeth on all surfaces, and act like a suit of armor for the tooth.
Stainless steel material used primarily on molar teeth.
White Zirconia Dental Crowns
White zirconia dental crowns are an alternative to a stainless-steel crown for children. The white zirconia dental crown is a metal-free esthetic crown that is certified biocompatible, extremely esthetic and is one of the most durable material used in dentistry today.
These crowns are options for use in restoring primary teeth (mainly used for anterior teeth) which are chipped, damaged, or broken, are not developing properly, or with areas of decay too large to fill without the risk of breaking a tooth.
Extensively decayed primary teeth can often cause great concern for patients and parents, especially when anterior (front) teeth are affected, with the zirconia crowns, our pediatric dentist at Appolonia can focus on aesthetic restoration of the damaged teeth as the main course of treatment.
Strip Crowns
Strip crowns are celluloid crown forms that are the most effective for use in pediatric patients with extensive caries in anterior teeth.
These are commonly used crown forms filled with composite and bonded on the tooth.
Stainless-steel Dental Crowns
A stainless-steel crown is the standard tooth restoration done by a Pediatric Dentist. If your child presents with a large cavity, or many teeth with cavities, it is much smarter to restore the cavities with stainless steel crowns, as opposed to white fillings.
Stainless steel crowns cover the teeth on all surfaces, and act like a suit of armor for the tooth.
Stainless steel material used primarily on molar teeth.
White Zirconia Dental Crowns
White zirconia dental crowns are an alternative to a stainless-steel crown for children. The white zirconia dental crown is a metal-free esthetic crown that is certified biocompatible, extremely esthetic and is one of the most durable material used in dentistry today.
These crowns are options for use in restoring primary teeth (mainly used for anterior teeth) which are chipped, damaged, or broken, are not developing properly, or with areas of decay too large to fill without the risk of breaking a tooth.
Extensively decayed primary teeth can often cause great concern for patients and parents, especially when anterior (front) teeth are affected, with the zirconia crowns, our pediatric dentist at Appolonia can focus on aesthetic restoration of the damaged teeth as the main course of treatment.