Dental Crown: Benefits and Problems

Dental crowns are performed by removing the outer surface of the tooth and then placing a cap that looks like a tooth on top of the tooth stub.

dental crown

broken dental crown

broken dental crown

(bottom two images from flickr, creative commons license.)

These pictures of a broken dental crown gives you some idea what is looks like from the inside.

Dental fillings fill in a part of the tooth. A dental crown is like a giant custom made filling, that covers the entire visible part of the tooth. A dental crown creates a synthetic tooth surface.

Dental Crowns are Typically Recommended For:

  • Broken Teeth
  • Excessively worn teeth

A dental crown is made in a laboratory or using high tech imaging technology to make a synthetic version of your natural tooth. Crowns will run you somewhere in the range of $600-$1000 each.

Problems With Dental Crowns

A variety of problems can occur with dental crowns. Firstly the tooth is suffocated. Imagine if you had a scratch on your skin. And as a solution, you put on a new layer of non-breathable skin on top of your skin? It would feel horrible. In the same way, our teeth need to breathe due to miles of microscopic fluid canals in each tooth.

The teeth have fluid flowing in them, and a dental crown will suffocate this flow. It will make your tooth unhappy.

Another problem with dental crowns is that one usually has to sand away good tooth structure in order to make the crown fit properly. As a result, the remaining tooth is fairly weak. That is one reason why you hear of crowns breaking.

Surgical Alternatives and Dental Crowns

Some holistic oriented dentists offer alternative treatments to dental crowns. One alternative is to perform a high quality filling that is larger than usual to restore the tooth, rather than to do a crown.

Another alternative is a more modern dental crown bonded with a high strength bonding agent. Newer technology, which I believe uses lasers, allows for a dentist to place a crown that is much thinner than the old fashioned crowns shown in the pictures above. This means crowns can be placed which require much less drilling of your tooth.

Tooth Remineralization and Dental Crowns

A dental crown does not heal your tooth from tooth decay. It simply hides the symptom of your body's decomposition process. Many times a crowned tooth will eventually develop new tooth decay because the root cause of the tooth decay was not addressed.

Crowned teeth are difficult to heal and remineralize because they have been so traumatized and abused. Teeth with large cavities are already unhealthy. Once they are drilled down to a stub for a crown, they are in worse shape. So crowned teeth can be challenging to heal naturally if they are giving you problems. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try. I just want to be honest with you about what to expect.

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