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Have the Invisalign treatment completed, then consider replacing your crown. Make sure to have your crown replaced prior to making your final retainers.
I usually always recommend doing the orthodontics first and then the crown good luck Kevin Coughlin DMD, MBA, MAGD CEO Baystate Dental PC
I would recommend getting the crown after Invisalign has been completed. It is easier for the dentist to do restorative work after your teeth have been straightened and sometimes when moving teeth, an old crown may become loose and have to be replaced anyway. Hope this helps!
There is a certain lack of precision with moving teeth, but great accuracy with crowns. It is generally better to move teeth first, then crown teeth to finish it all off. This allows us the ability to correct any look or fit that ortho may have lacked.
If the crown is not too uncomfortable, then change do the invisalign first. Invisalign will change the anatomical relationships and theoretically you want your crown to fit the post treatment anatomical relationships.
The answer is YES. The first Invisalign aligners obviously fit well and that is good. If your first aligners were very tight I would be concerned.
Ask your dentist why the tooth is not fully covered. If it is due to a poor impression, then that impression should be retaken as many times as necessary to get perfection. Otherwise, it will definitely affect your results.
If the tooth root anatomy is normal then the only concern is whether or not the periodontal ligament around the root of the tooth is normal. The periodontal ligament is the tissue space between the root of the tooth and the bone which supports the tooth. This space contains blood...
