Miami Dental Crown doctors

Often the teeth can experience the increased sensitivity after cementation of any crown. It can be caused by previous preparation of the tooth, leakage under the temporary crown, possible infection. But in your case it sounds more like this also can be triggered by crown lengthening as well. The zone apical to the cemento-enamel junction can be extremely sensitive and react to cold. You should definitely ask for 2nd opinion and clear the actual reasons for the throbbing pain.

Based on your description, your son had most likely after the injury of the tooth the "root canal" treatment. In order to prevent the future bacterial leakage inside the canal and re-infectioning of the tooth, it has to be covered by the permanent crown withing next 3 months. Otherwise, the risk of re-doing root canal filling will be very high and success of endodontic retreatment will not be high according to the research. In the situation like that, it will be a better option to cover to tooth with permanently cemented porcelain crown.

Cerec crowns which are performed at the same visit as the research shows have the same strength and marginal integrity. However, aesthetically Cerec crowns will never look as lab fabricated crowns due to additional glaze, variety of shades, etc. Even with advanced advertising same day crowns the specialists always tend towards lab fabricated all-ceramic crowns due to strength, better marginal adaptation, possible variability with shades, contour, shape. The human artistic touch will always will make the crown look natural.