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Dental Crown or Veneer for Front Left Top Tooth? (photo)
I am 34 and had a root canal at an early age on my front left top tooth. It was chipped and filled however over the last couple years it has become noticeably discolored. I am now confused with all the advise from multiple dentist. 1. 2 veneers on 2 front teeth. 2 veneers easier to match 2. 1 veneer on discolored tooth. Veneer looks better 3. Porcelain Crown due to discoloration and brittleness of veneers Help! I would like to know A which looks better and B what has less of a risk of breaking
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Dental Crown or Veneer for Front Left Top Tooth?
Its is a hard decision for you to make,but you have to do what will make you happy and comfortable with your smile. The tooth with the root canal and chipped composite will need a crown, simply because RCT discolor teeth and need more support and strenght with a full coverage porcelain crown. This tooth will look good with just a crown and if you go to a great Cosmetic dentist , matching your existing color can be hard but not impossible. The best aesthetics and perfect matching will...
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Fairfax Cosmetic Dentist
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When to crown VS veneer
Any dentist who thinks veneer will cover up the darkness your tooth is not a cosmetic dentist. In order to mask this kind of discoloration, enough reduction ( removing tooth) has to happen in which case you are looking into getting a crown to begin with. Also whenever you have a root canal there has been a filling placed in the tongue side of your tooth to cover the access hole they made to perform a root canal. So your tooth is damaged from inside and has a filling anyway, so in...
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Crown vs. veneer for root canaled tooth
My general rule is full-coverage crown for a root-canaled tooth due to the added strength that's needed to protect the more brittle tooth. I can also tell you that one of the hardest cosmetic procedures in dentistry is matching a single front crown or veneer to the surrounding natural teeth. This requires a meticulous dentist and a laboratory that can do nice customizing to get the color right. I can't see anything wrong with your right front tooth, but you may still want...
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In the situation when the root canal treatment was performed earlier, it is extremely important to cover the tooth with the permanent restoration. If the tooth is already discolored - the all-ceramic crown will be the more viable, long-term, aesthetic option, especially for anterior area. Usually it is performed after the full mouth teeth whitening, so that the final restoration will be looking more aesthetic.
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Crown or Veneer for Front Tooth?
It's very hard to make a diagnosis from a picture. However, the dark Root Canal tooth will probably be stronger with a porcelain crown, and the adjacent front tooth should get a Porcelain Veneer at the same time. The reason being, it is EXTREMELY DIFFICULT to place a porcelain restoration on only 1 FRONT tooth, and have it match in texture, color and luminescence to the adjacent tooth. If the 2 are done at the same time, by a HIGH QUALITY dental laboratory, under the direction of a VERY HIGH...
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Veneer or Crown? Always Go As Conservative As Possible...
From your photo, it does look like you are a candidate for veneer(s) over crown(s). My rule of thumb is that the more healthy natural tooth structure you can keep intact, the stronger the resulting restoration. In other words, unless the whole back (lingual) side of the dark tooth is blown out from the past root canal, then you would want to use a veneer...because with a veneer we can contour a little bit of your tooth back (to make room for the veneer, whereas with a crown we...
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Crown or veneers ove root canal tooth
Based on the information you have provided us I would more than likely place a crown. Root canal teeth need more support and strength and an all porcelain crown will help provide that. Speak to a qualified dentist and see what your options are. Get multiple opinions if you feel unsure.
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Crown or veneer?
In your situation I would reccomend to crown endodontically treated tooth #9 that is severely discolored. However your treatment probably would not end here, if you are concern about esthetics. It is one of the biggest challenges in esthetic dentistry to match one front crown to the natural teeth. That is why I would highly reccomend to place a veneer on adjacent front tooth #8. That way you can achieve better results. Good luck!
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