Coating teeth with veneers or crowns
Written by:One of the most frequently asked questions that are made by patients is: how I can improve my smile? Together with the many problems that you may have dental health, there is a field, that of aesthetics, which today can be very important. There speaks our expert in dentistry
How to remedy the estetitci dental problems?
When the patient has teeth dark or ruined, with small fractures or light displacement, suffering from aesthetic dental problems. For this there are a number of treatments that can be made, and among them is the application of dental veneers or ceramic crowns of the total coating.
What are the differences between porcelain veneers and crowns?
Porcelain veneers are thin sheets (0.3 to 0.7 mm) covering the front of the teeth and their aims. The thickness of the veneers depends on many factors, such as the color to be masked, the position to be corrected or the defect to enhance. In most cases, you must cut the tooth to then make a 'veneer, even if very small. In very few cases it is not necessary to touch the surface of the teeth. Therefore, the ceramic veneers are a conservative treatment, which retain most of the teeth, without affecting their stability.
Porcelain veneers are applied so that they are visible when you smile, usually from first molar to first molar. The ceramic veneers, however, can not be done in the molar area, which require another type of treatment.
In some cases, but less and less, the facets are not the best treatment, and for this reason there is the need to use the crowns as a total coating.
In such cases you need crowns to the total coating?
At times the patient needs to change the dental crown that already door due to teeth that are too damaged. The treatment for this is to be very aggressive.
The fact of change and adjust the teeth in the case of the veneers also applies in the case of crowns, so as to Mantener the enamel of the tooth retaining the harder outer part of the latter. In the case of crowns, for any material is going to use, you need to eliminate all the outer layer of the tooth to get to the inner part, called dentin. In crowns we have to change the entire part of the tooth that is not only the front or the toe.