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Do I need a dental crown for a cracked tooth?
If you have recently cracked a tooth, you may wonder whether you need a dental crown to fix the problem. Dr. Olivia Hart and her team at Virginia Biological Dentistry of Glen Allen, Richmond, Virginia, can evaluate you and determine what needs to be done to restore the tooth and protect it from further damage. She is a mercury-free, biological dental professional serving patients in the area, ensuring all her treatments are conservative and biocompatible.
Accurate diagnosis, best treatment, and search for a root cause of your cracked tooth
First, Dr. Olivia Hart must decide what can be done by assessing the severity of the crack in the tooth. She will take a three-dimensional image – CBCT or cone beam – to determine the exact problem associated with a cracked tooth and discuss your tooth symptoms in depth. Next to offering an accurate diagnosis and selecting the best treatment for your specific dental concern, Dr. Hart will investigate the root cause for your tooth crack to develop an effective preventive protocol to minimize the likelihood of cracks occurring to your other teeth in months and years to come.
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Do I need to crown a cracked tooth?
The answer to this question depends on several factors, including determining the best treatment for your specific dental concern.
The larger the crack, the more treatment must be considered and the narrower the solutions. A large crack that has gone down through the root may require extraction and replacement with a ceramic implant, while a smaller crack might be addressed with composite resin bonding or a ceramic restoration such as inlay, onlay, or a crown.
Dr. Olivia Hart also needs to consider the tooth’s location in the smile. Teeth near the front of the smile are thinner than larger teeth in the back, such as molars, so a crack of the same size on an anterior tooth might be more damaging than one on the back teeth, where the tooth has more strength and integrity.
In addition, she must also decide if the tooth can hold up to continued chewing and biting forces. If not, before more interventionist surgery, such as an extraction, is recommended, Dr. Hart may first discuss the benefits of a dental ceramic crown or same-day ceramic inlays, onlays, or overlays. Dental ceramic crowns and other ceramic restorations are sometimes used to cover a cracked tooth. Dr. Olivia Hart and her team are excited to offer same-day crown replacement using the CEREC system. This allows patients to have dental ceramic crowns, ceramic inlays, onlays, or overlays made while waiting instead of scheduling an appointment later and dealing with a temporary restoration.
Do you have a cracked tooth that needs same-day repair?
Consider treatment using a dental crown or other ceramic restoration before extraction of the permanent tooth, and a possible ceramic implant is considered.
Call Dr. Olivia Hart and her team at Virginia Biological Dentistry at (804) 381-6238 to request an appointment at her office at 4932 Dominion Boulevard, Suite C, in Glen Allen, VA.
Dr. Olivia Hart
DDS, NMD, IABDM & ICOI Fellow & AAIP Fellow
Dr. Olivia Hart, a founder of Virginia Biological Dentistry and a highly accomplished biological dentist, is honored to serve her community in Glen Allen, Richmond VA. She has always sought to enrich her knowledge in the field of holistic/biological dental health and to offer her patients the best comprehensive dental care possible. Her Virginia Biological Dentistry provides services ranging from biocompatible ceramic restorations, ceramic implants, and extractions with a biological protocol to treatments of sleep apnea, TMJ and other specialized bio-dental services.
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