Dental Crowns in Midtown East, NYC

Planned by Dr. Kunal Lal, board-certified prosthodontist.

A crown covers and rebuilds a tooth that is too broken, worn or heavily filled to hold a filling reliably.

Modern crowns are made from porcelain and ceramics that mimic the way natural enamel handles light, so a single crown can sit next to natural teeth without announcing itself. That matters most at the front, where a crown has to match a neighbor rather than a photograph.

What a crown is actually doing

A tooth that has lost much of its structure flexes under load, and flexing is what eventually splits it. A crown holds the remaining tooth together and takes the force itself.

Dental crowns are also used to cover a tooth after a root canal, to protect what remains of it.

Getting the fit right

The margin where a crown meets the tooth is where crowns succeed or fail. A gap there collects plaque, and decay under a crown is difficult to detect until it is advanced. The preparation, the impression or scan, and the laboratory work all exist to make that junction as close to invisible as possible.

More on the digital dentistry behind this treatment: 3D CBCT imaging, iTero scanning, guided surgery and CEREC.