Giving You the Best Care Out There

When you get a dental crown, you’re getting a restoration that will improve the health, function, and appearance of your smile — ideally for 15 years or more. Because of this, it’s normal to want to ensure you’re going to love the results! Choosing a skilled dentist who uses high-quality materials and goes above and beyond to give you the best treatment possible makes a huge difference in your treatment outcome. Different dentists go about the process of designing and placing crowns differently, so you should do a little research before you receive a dental crown.

At our St. Albans dental office, every aspect of our approach to dental crown design and placement is carefully thought through to give you the best, most personalized care possible. But what exactly makes us special? Here are 10 ways our approach to dental crowns is better.

1. We believe in helping you understand all of your treatment options.

We always want you to feel confident and secure in your treatment, knowing you’re receiving the best long-term treatment for you. With that in mind, your St. Albans dentist will always explain all of your treatment options, including why they’re recommending a dental crown and why they think it’s the best solution in your case. This allows you to make informed decisions about your oral health that you can feel truly confident in. In turn, this can improve any dental anxiety you might feel before your procedure.

2. We offer several crown materials for you to choose from.

Crowns can be made from a wide range of materials. We offer a lot of different options, including gold, porcelain-fused-to-metal, and two different types of ceramic crowns. Each of these materials has its own strengths and weaknesses, so when you decide to get a crown at our office, you get to choose which you’d like based on factors like appearance, strength, durability, and cost. Everyone has different treatment needs and preferences, so offering multiple types of crowns allows us to ensure you’ll be able to choose a crown that goes beyond simply fitting the bill; it’ll meet your hopes for your treatment too, giving you results you genuinely love!

3. We craft each crown specifically for you.

When you get a crown, you don’t have to worry about it looking like it’s just come off an assembly line. Each crown you receive from our office is designed and made specifically for you, making it completely unique. You’ll get input on its size and shape as well as the shade of ceramic or porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns. This helps ensure that your final crown looks like it belongs in your smile.

4. Our crowns are crafted with expert artistry.

We partner with a laboratory to give you the highest quality crowns available. It takes a little more time than same day crowns, but it’s worth it! After all, they’re experts at crafting crowns. They do it all the time, so they’ve perfected every aspect of the art involved. These crowns don’t just fulfill the utilitarian purpose of restoring the health and function of your smile; they’re artistically crafted to be truly unique. This helps them look and feel even more natural, fitting into your smile like they’ve always been there!

5. We use proven science and innovative technology to give you the best treatment available.

We’re passionate about science, so we rely on proven research and innovative technology to give you amazing, lasting results for your smile’s health, function, and appearance. We’re willing to invest in innovation and continuing education to stay up to date on the latest and best treatment methods so you can rest easy knowing your care is in the hands of people who are as skilled as they are passionate about what they do!

6. Our ceramic crowns are the best available.

We offer both e.max and zirconia crowns, which are two of the best crown materials available. Like other ceramic crowns, e.max and zirconia crowns are highly customizable and are tinted to match the color of your natural teeth, but they each go above and beyond typical porcelain crowns in some way. E.max crowns are made out of a ceramic glass material that’s naturally slightly translucent, just like your natural teeth! This allows e.max crowns to look more natural than ever. They’re indistinguishable from your natural teeth.

Zirconia crowns are made from a naturally white, biocompatible metal similar to titanium. While e.max crowns look more natural, zirconia crowns blend in with your teeth well and are considerably stronger, making them a great choice for back molars or people who tend to clench or grind their teeth. E.max and zirconia crowns have their own unique strengths and weaknesses, but they’re both great options if you’re looking for long-lasting crowns that look naturally beautiful.

7. We work hard to ensure your crown fits perfectly.

Multiple factors go into making sure your crown feels comfortable and natural, starting from the instant we begin the process. We will take impressions of your teeth and jaws to help us create the perfect crown for you, but we don’t stop there! We’ll also examine all aspects of your bite and jaw movements to ensure the crown we design will move and interact with your teeth and bite naturally. Once your unique crown is sculpted, your dentist will check your bite before and after it’s cement into place, making adjustments as needed so it’s positioned perfectly. This process helps your crown feel comfortable and natural just like it should!

8. We’re passionate and skilled at using crowns in complex aesthetic restorations.

Many patients only require a single dental crown at a time, but others need one or more crowns as part of a complex aesthetic restoration, such as a smile makeover or full mouth reconstruction. It’s always best to save your natural teeth whenever possible, so we’re passionate about using dental crowns in complex aesthetic restorations — and we have the skills to match! Crowns are a vital part of completely transforming your smile, giving you a smile that’s as naturally beautiful as it is healthy.

9. We focus on small, simple restorations after making your natural smile the best it can be.

That said, we prefer to use treatments like Invisalign and the growth of your own muscles to do most of the work of improving your smile, then we use crowns for the rest. This method improves your smile naturally and leaves more of your teeth as untouched as possible, which is better for your long-term oral health. Plus, correcting a misaligned bite and crooked teeth through Invisalign can transform the health and appearance of your smile, making it easier to clean them thoroughly and helping to decrease the chances you’ll experience future issues, like TMJ pain.

10. We look at the health of your entire smile instead of just a single tooth.

We believe it’s always best to consider the health of your entire smile with each treatment. This means we examine your mouth to make sure there aren’t larger issues that may have caused your tooth to need a crown in the first place. Did enamel erosion lead to the cavity in your tooth? Are you clenching or grinding your teeth at night? If so, what’s causing you to do this? These are the types of questions we ask when we’re treating you. We also consider the best treatment for the individual tooth and your smile as a whole, ensuring your entire smile is the healthiest it can be.

Consider receiving dental crowns from Dickinson & Branon.

It’s never ideal to need a dental crown, but we believe the entire experience should be as simple and positive as possible, aimed at giving you a treatment that meets your individual needs and wants for years to come. If you’d like to learn more about getting a dental crown, feel free to call our office and schedule an appointment with a St. Albans dentist at any time!