DESCRIPTION
Dental crowns are fixed prosthetics made from strong material that are permanently cemented onto your natural teeth with the purpose of protecting your tooth from further damage like chipping or tooth that already broken due to decay. Dental crown also improve the alignment of your mouth, and porcelain crowns can be used to enhanced the overall aesthetic appearance of your teeth and smile in general. There are various material that used to create a dental crown, the most well-known material is basically porcelain, and a combination of porcelain fused to zirconia, or porcelain fused to metal alloy. Your teeth will be grind down in order to create space for the crown so it will not be too bulky.
TREATMENT TIME FRAME
Consist of 3 to 4 appointment in between, with 5 to 8 days production time in the dental laboratory depend on how many crown that you need.
- 1st appointment or day 1 – For consultation or if possible our dentist will do the preparation/grinding your tooth directly and create an impression/mold for our Lab to create the crown. You will have temporary before leaving the clinic.
- 2nd appointment or day 6/10 – For fitting the crown. Our dentist will check the fitting of your new crown on top of your tooth, check contact between each tooth, check color and shape to make sure it has the same color as the other tooth or as we plan in the beginning. Once the checking process is over, and you satisfied with the result our dentist will glue the crown permanently, if not, then our dentist will send the crown back to the lab for correction, and you will need to come back again next appointment (normally Lab will need 1 or 2 days for correction)
- 3rd appointment is for follow up process once the crown has been glued on your tooth. Our dentist will need to do further bite check to make sure the bite is not too high, and further cleaning from excess glue.
RISK AND COMPLICATION
- Sensitivity due to tooth grinding
- Most of the time crown is build on tooth that suffer from decay that sometime already close to the nerve, this can cause pain if the nerve is failing.
- Porcelain crown can be chipped or broken
- Porcelain crown can become loose and fall off from your tooth.
ESTIMATE PRICE
1 Porcelain crown is Rp 4,500,000. or check price list here
CORRESPONDING TREATMENT
- Full mouth rehabilitation
- Smile make over
- Dental implant
- Root canal treatment
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