If your crown breaks

Tip for handling a broken crown.

If your crown breaks, especially when it's in the front part of your mouth, it can surely end and otherwise nice day; however, here are some tips that may help the immediate problem.

For save the fractured piece of porcelain. Sometimes a dentist can recement the broken piece until the crown is remade but if your tooth is sensitive, it may be because the inside part of the tooth or dentin is exposed or the tooth was damaged in the accident that fractured the crown. In either case, see your dentist as soon as possible .

Advantages VS Disadvantages of Dental Crown

Advantages after you already did the crowns teeth can be lightened or whitened to any desired shade, the dentist can improve shapes of teeth during this process, some realignment or straightening of teeth is possible longest life of any restoration.

Disavantages is crowns can fracture , requires an anesthetic. Original tooth form is altered (possibly involving the nerve) . If tissue shrinkage occurs, it can expose the junction between tooth and crown, allowing for the possibility of an unsightly line. Crowning is not permanent , there is limited esthetic life expectancy (but if you keep clean well take care of it, no infection the crowns can last you more than 10 years this is what is my experience)

Five treatments for stained teeth

Scaling and Polishing

Bleaching

Bonding

Laminating

Crowning

Do you know there are generally five ways to treat your stains of treatment depends on the cause and degree of discoloration. Scaling and Polishing is the simplest method when your teeth need to clean of some food and drink like coffee , tea or smoking . Not all the time Scaling and Polishing they maybe can't removed so easily. You may be treated by another alternative.

Why teeth stain?