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Dental crowns are a highly versatile dental treatment used for restorative and cosmetic purposes. Your dentist may recommend crown treatment to restore and salvage a damaged tooth for future use. Cracked or broken teeth are prone to infection and decay, which can put your entire smile at risk. Dental crowns are hollow tooth-shaped caps placed over damaged teeth to shield them from infection, decay, and further damage.
When you cover a tooth with a crown, the crown becomes its new exterior structure. Porcelain crowns mimic the color and sheen of natural tooth enamel to restore your tooth’s appearance and usefulness. Dr. Neal Edwards, DDS, is your go-to dentist for crowns in Riverside, California. In this post, we discuss seven ways crowns can enhance your smile.
Tooth repair is one of the main uses of dental crowns. By crowning a cracked or broken tooth, Dr. Edwards can restore its usefulness to save it from extraction. Crowns act like protective coverings to safeguard compromised teeth from further damage. They take on the task of biting and chewing so your teeth can continue to be used. Dental crowns give damaged teeth renewed strength and durability for the future.
Crowns can prevent weak or worn teeth from chipping, cracking, or crumbling. Rather than wait for damage to occur, Dr. Edwards can preempt it with crown treatment. A crown is often placed over a tooth after root canal treatment to fortify its weakened structure.
Most cavities are treated with dental fillings. However, for large cavities, your tooth may need more protection than a filling can provide. Crowns protect teeth with large cavities to keep them from fracturing with continued use.
A dental crown can relieve painful chewing caused by a fractured or broken tooth and protect it from further breakage. You’ll be able to eat comfortably without worrying about causing more damage to your tooth.
Crowns can conceal stains and discolorations on teeth that whitening treatment can’t remove. Dr. Edwards can create a natural-looking crown to restore your tooth’s original shape and color to make it appear new.
Misshapen or odd-sized teeth aren’t a problem if they’re hidden. They can throw your whole smile off balance when they’re front and center in your smile. Crowning irregular teeth makes them more uniform to give your smile a pleasing appearance.
Dental crowns can also be paired with implants to replace missing teeth in your smile. Crowns fill the gaps left by lost teeth to create a healthy smile.
To learn more about the restorative properties of dental crowns, contact Dr. Neal Edwards in Riverside, CA, at (951) 614-0033.
Dr. Neal Edwards, DDS, FICOI, studied Biology at La Sierra University before earning his dental degree from the Loma Linda University School of Dentistry. A practicing dentist since 2007, he loves meeting new people and helping them achieve their dental goals through pleasant dental experiences.Dr. Edwards holds memberships in the American Dental Association, California Dental Association, American Academy of Implant Dentistry, and International Congress of Oral Implantologists (ICOI). He is very keen on continuing education and completed his ICOI Fellowship recently. He had also completed a mini-residency in implant dentistry from Loma Linda University. He is a Team Dentist for the Ontario Reign hockey team - LA Kings’ AHL affiliate.
My name’s Aaron Phillips, and I’ve been a patient of Dr. Edwards for about seven years since he opened his practice. The treatment that I’ve received that’s made the biggest difference in my smile has really been addressing my grinding. So I grind a lot. I grind at night, I grind during the day. I’m clenching, and so I’ve cracked a molar and he’s had to fill another molar where I’ve just ground away. It’s down to dentin, and that’s made a big difference for me in terms of pain and coping through the day. So through his treatment, Dr. Edwards has really helped, I think, preserve and save my teeth because I just grind so hard. But he’s also helped me address pain that I have throughout the day. I have a lot of jaw pain. It creates headaches and tension in my neck, and it was really impacting my daily life.
And so with his help, I’ve been able to address that and save my teeth. So Dr. Edwards, his entire team make us feel really comfortable here in the office. They greet us, they know us, they know the details of our family and our kids. And because we’ve been patients for so long, they just really make us feel like we’re home. It’s a very comfortable environment for us. If folks are interested in getting dental treatment, I think they should choose Dr. Edwards because he’s honest and trustworthy and he’ll tell you what you need and then he’ll follow through. And his staff, they’re amazing. They make you feel very comfortable, very trusting, and they make you feel like family.
My name is Kyra Men, and I’ve been a patient of Dr. Edwards for about 15 years now. So the treatment that I received with Dr. Edwards that made the biggest difference for me were my implants. I needed an implant. I needed a bridge. I mean, my confidence was shot because my teeth had a lot of issues. Your smile is everything. I’m an educator. I teach kids. I sing a lot, and so being nervous about what you’re going to look like on camera, it really is a thing. So I think just the implants, being able to regain that confidence, it was everything. I decided to get the bridge repair and the implants because my teeth, when he went in to try to repair them, they weren’t salvageable, and so we had to do something to replace my existing teeth. I just felt overall restored. I felt a lot more confident.
I was excited to explore the other treatments that he suggested as well. If someone is interested in a bridge repair treatment, I would say definitely choose Dr. Edwards because he takes time to make sure the small details are covered. For instance, the color of the teeth, you could tell the difference between their natural teeth and then the bridge repair. With him, that’s not the case. He takes the time to make sure that there’s a perfect color match. He maintains the integrity of the shape of the tooth, and even any of the spacing that your normal teeth would have.
My name is Lou Monville, and I have been a patient of Dr. Edwards for seven years. So the treatment that I received here that made the biggest difference in my smile is these two things right here. So those teeth got broken in high school, plain water polo, like a lot of my dental work, and I had some old crowns. They were getting to the point that they needed to be replaced, and so Dr. Edwards says it’s time to replace those. But what blew my mind was it was done in a day. I was in and out of here in less than two hours with two brand new teeth that actually looked like my teeth. My wife was blown away. The technology now and the technology that Dr. Edwards has is phenomenal. I was always kind of cautious with my smile, real up close with those kind of big false teeth, and now you can’t tell the difference.
My kids noticed the difference. My family noticed the difference. So it’s been probably one of the best things I’ve done in a long time. Well, if you’re going to have a crown treatment, why would I tell you to go see Dr. Edwards? First off, the attention to detail that was super important. Then two, just the technology, the ability to not have to walk around with a false tooth or a temporary, two crowns in and out, two hours. I’ve never experienced that in my life to have that repair look phenomenal, but to be done, when you walk out and you’ve got your smile, you can’t beat it.