When we offer crowns at Dental on Metro, clients often conjure memories of previous crown experiences or crowns they’ve seen in friends or strangers.

Traditional dental crowns were like handmade jewellery.   The final result was a combination of (usually) a precious metal like gold, with a fusion of feldspathic porcelain baked on in a furnace.   To see these made is a beautiful art and the human eye and hand is still applicable to many well-made crowns and bridges.

However many of us are familiar with the tomb stone appearance of the single poorly done front tooth.  Common mistakes with crowns are crowns that are ‘over-contoured’ (too fat in the forward direction), the wrong colour, or with exposed gum lines.  In particular the old porcelain fused to metal crowns were made on old shade matching systems and an exposed gum line would look black, ruining the cosmetics of the crown.

It is the new world now with scientific colour matching systems and the availability of fully ceramic crowns.  That is to say no metallic component.  This allows light to travel ‘through’ the crown giving a crown amazing life like properties.  Crowns now seamlessly blend with other teeth.  Modern all ceramics such as ‘Emax’ and ‘Empress’ are also super strong when bonded.

We are making these crowns every day, in one day, at Dental on Metro using precise 3-D camera’s, CAD-CAM and computer controlled furnace firing.