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.
Dental crowns or veneers for two front 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?
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A: 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.
A: 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... more
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