Just received temporary crowns. What should I watch out for?

I'm assuming you had a crown that came off. Not important to keep it hydrated with water or milk, that is done when a tooth has been knocked out and the dentist will be reimplanting it within a couple hours. With your crown, just put it in a box so that you don't lose it or break it and see...

Is it a shine-through of the underlying tooth and/or cement that you see through the veneers and crowns? If so, cosmetic dentists often call this "headlights" and is a result of the technician making the porcelain too thin at those spots and/or the dentist not adequately preparing the tooth...

There are two types of ceramic tooth-colored restorations other than the porcelain fused to metal that you previously had. One is a zirconia crown, tooth colored, very strong. The other is EMax, which is my favorite. Emax can be bonded onto the tooth, which is better than cementing like you...

Never know until i can see area first hand. but, more importantly, today is the generation of implant dentistry. i would question the potential success/failure rate of the procedure vs an implant. implants placed correctly will last a lifetime, whereas crown lengthening and other tooth saving...

It's probably not that your tooth is too small, but there isn't enough strong tooth structure left for a tooth to retain a crown. However, there are a couple of ways around this that you and your dentist consider. One is doing a crown lengthening procedure, whereby your dentist or periodontist...

This problem you're having is not uncommon. Although you might certainly have cracked tooth syndrome, which by the way, does not usually show up on an x-ray, it may be a problem with the composite filling. Occasionally the filling will pull away from the tooth leaving a microscopic gap, and...