Have You Ever Heard of a Crown Lenghting?

Nancy, Crown Lengthening is without question a necessary and valid procedure and there are many indications for its usage. If a Tooth is considered small where there is not enough surface area to reliably hold on to a crown then Crown Lengthening can expose more healthy Tooth structure to solve that  problem. I'm sure its safe to assume that you or anyone else would not want to worry about your permanent  Crown coming off once or twice a week. There are also times when Dental Decay forms beneath the Gum Line coming close to the level of the bone. If a Crown is made under this circumstance than the margin of your new Crown will be too close to the bone  causing your Gums to feel irritated and swollen all of the time. This can be avoided by Crown Lengthening since bone and tissue can be gently  recontoured allowing space between the Crown Margin and the Bone. Under most situations Crown Lengthening is a minor Surgical procedure which can be done routinely and painlessly in about 20 minutes to half an hour. I hope that this explanation  helps you.

Yes, it is true.

Crown lenghtening is a surgical procedure.It happens whenever a tooth has a deep decay that gooes underneath the gingiva and the bone. We have to remove the decay and part of the gingiva with the bone in order to have a marginal closure for your crown.If we do not do that your crown will fail in the long run.It will come off.Other times we will encounter reccurent decay.

Sometimes,we do crown lenghtening when your tooh is very small and we have to expand the surface of the tooth in order to increase the retention for the crown to be placed.