Crowns

Rideau Dental Centre offers the service of dental crowns, also called caps. Caps are required for several reasons such as to create a protective layer around a weak tooth against decay, to install bridges, to cover a large filling, or to cover a seriously discolored tooth. Sometimes dentist may advice against fillings when the think it will occupy an important part of the tooth and use a cap instead.

Crowns, as the name suggests, cover the part of the tooth at and above the gum line and are hence are the tooth’s new outer surface.

The installation process first involves reducing or removing of a section of the tooth in order to make space. This will depend on the choice of material (gold alloy, porcelain attached to metal, all resin, and ceramic). Our doctors will then take an imprint of your remaining tooth and caste a crown in it which is later installed on top of the damaged tooth. In the meanwhile, you will be provided with a temporary cap to protect your tooth. If you choose a non-metallic material, dentists can even make it appear tooth colored.

Benefits of installing of crowns include prevention of further decay and damage and it also helps to conceal a particularly sensitive tooth.