Dental Crowns
Full-coverage strength, digitally engineered
What it
actually is
A crown covers a tooth entirely, replacing its outer structure with ceramic engineered to withstand the several hundred newtons of force a molar generates every time you chew. It is the treatment of choice when a tooth has lost too much structure for a filling to be reliable.
The distinction matters: a large filling wedges material into a weakened tooth and can act like a splitting force, while a crown holds the remaining tooth together from the outside. Once a cusp has fractured or a root canal has been completed, a crown is usually the difference between keeping the tooth for decades and losing it within a few years.
Our crowns are designed digitally from an intraoral scan and milled or pressed from monolithic zirconia or lithium disilicate depending on where they sit and how hard you bite. Many single crowns are designed, milled and fitted in a single appointment.
Why patients
choose it
Protects the tooth
Full coverage distributes chewing force and prevents the vertical fracture that ends most heavily restored teeth.
Same-day possible
Digital design and in-house milling means many crowns are fitted the same day, with no temporary phase.
No impression putty
Intraoral scanning replaces trays and material — faster, more comfortable and far more accurate.
Metal-free options
All-ceramic crowns avoid the grey shadow at the gum line that older porcelain-fused-to-metal crowns develop.
Colour matched
Shade is taken under calibrated lighting and mapped digitally, not eyeballed.
Step by step
Assessment & imaging
Digital X-rays confirm the tooth is restorable and the root and surrounding bone are healthy enough to support a crown.
Preparation
Under local anaesthetic, decay and failing material are removed and the tooth is shaped to receive the crown, preserving all sound structure.
Digital scan
An intraoral scanner captures the preparation, the opposing teeth and your bite in about ninety seconds.
Design & manufacture
The crown is designed on screen and either milled in-house the same day or pressed by our laboratory for the most demanding aesthetic cases.
Fit & bond
Contacts, bite and shade are verified, then the crown is permanently cemented and polished.
What to
expect after
- You can eat normally once the anaesthetic wears off, usually two to three hours.
- Mild sensitivity to temperature for a week or two is common, particularly on a tooth that was already inflamed.
- If the bite feels even slightly high, call us — a five-minute adjustment prevents weeks of discomfort.
- Floss normally, but pull the floss out sideways rather than up for the first few days.
In-house milling
Same-day crowns for suitable cases, so you are not wearing a temporary for two weeks.
Micron-level fit
Digital scanning and verification means margins you can barely find with an explorer.
Bite-first philosophy
Dr. Petrova assesses the whole occlusion before crowning a single tooth, so the new crown does not become the next fracture.
Frequently
asked
Crown or filling — how do you decide?+
Roughly, when more than half the biting surface is gone or a cusp is cracked, a filling will not hold. We show you the intraoral photographs and explain the reasoning.
How long do crowns last?+
Ten to twenty years is the normal range. The crown itself rarely fails; what fails is decay at the margin, which is why hygiene visits matter.
Will it look different from my other teeth?+
A single front crown is the hardest thing in dentistry to match. We take extra photographs, and if needed you meet the ceramist directly.
Does a crowned tooth still decay?+
The crown does not, but the natural tooth beneath the margin can. Brushing and flossing that margin is essential.