Cosmetic Dentistry

Our practice offers a full range of cosmetic dental procedures. Some of the most popular procedures include ceramic veneers, ceramic crowns, ceramic composition bonding, ceramic composition restorations (fillings), tooth whitening and esthetic dental implants.

Ceramic Crowns
A ceramic crown is like a veneer except that it covers the entire tooth and gives the tooth additional strength. It is most often used when the tooth has been damaged by decay, chipped, broken or excessively worn. Cosmetically, a crown can improve a tooth like a veneer, and it can improve minor rotations, crowding and misaligned teeth as well.

On molars, esthetic ceramic crowns are are now preferred by most everyone. However, only one type of ceramic crown has the durability and resistance to fracture as a standard metal based crown. This state of the art crown utilizes zirconium as the base for the ceramic. This material is roughly three times stronger then all other ceramic systems. In fact, zirconium is so strong that only a specialized industrial level computer aided milling machine can cut the material. We are thrilled with the high tech in-office computer aided milling machines, but they can not mill the stronger ceramics and it is very unlikely they will ever be able to mill zirconium. Consequently, we have avoided this in-office technology in favor of laboratory computer directed milling of zirconium based ceramic crowns. We feel it is important to create a crown that combines optimal esthetics and durability.
 
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