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Dental Crowns or Veneers for Two Front Teeth?
asked 2 years ago by Juliette98743 in Dallas
Latest answer by Abraham Hoellrich, DDS
Question viewed 12,210 times
Tags: teeth
I have two veneers on my two front teeth. I need the veneers replaced. My dentist wants to crown one of my teeth as I had a root canal a few years back. The other tooth is perfectly healthy but needs a new veneer. My dentist also wants to do a crown on this tooth as he says it will be easier for the dental lab to match two crowns than match a crown and a veneer. These are my two very front top teeth. Does this sound right?
5 answers to Dental Crowns or Veneers for Two Front Teeth?
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2 Veneers is the way to go!
In dental school, dentists were taught to automatically crown a root canal tooth. With advances in adhesive esthetic dentistry we no longer have to follow that rule with anterior teeth.
The root canal tooth should be fit with a fiber post to give it added strength without compromising esthetics and both teeth prepared for porcelain veneers. The veneers should be designed in such a way so they look much like 3/4 porcelain crowns for added strength and longevity.
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Joseph W. Worthington, DDS
Fairfield Cosmetic Dentist
Fairfield Cosmetic Dentist
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Crown and veneer combo should be fine
There is a valid argument to a full crown on the tooth that had the root canal, but if were me, the veneer would remain a veneer on the adjacent tooth. If the crown is going to be with a metal core, then yes, matching the color would be hard. I just wouldn't recommend the metal core type. I would ask for a brand of all porcelain crown and veneer called empress, and the color matching should not be too difficult.
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New materials match
With the newer materials we have today there should not be a problem matching crowns and veneers on front teeth since they can be made with the same materials without metal underneath the porcelain. Whether or not a root-canaled front tooth needs a crown depends on how much strong tooth structure is remaining. I prefer to preserve as much tooth structure as I can, so I lean toward a veneer if possible.
Abraham Hoellrich, DDS
Columbus Cosmetic Dentist
Columbus Cosmetic Dentist
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Dental Crowns or Veneers for two front teeth
I would do a crowm on the tooth that had the root canal. The tooth that had the veneer would receive a new veneer. I would use an Empress Crown and it would be easy to match the porcelain crown to the procelain veneer.
Robert Fields, DDS
Los Angeles Cosmetic Dentist
Los Angeles Cosmetic Dentist
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Crown and veneers for two front teeth
If you were my patient, I would do the crown and the veneer almost without fail. Recent improvements in materials give us to the ability to do this procedure:
1. Without a need for metal substructure, and;
2. And very closely match a ceramic/porcelain crown with a porcelain veneer.
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