Dental crowns can improve your smile. If you have damaged, decayed, cracked or deformed teeth, porcelain crowns from 
Ulibarri Family Dentistry in Fort Collins, CO, provide the finest in materials, diagnostics and treatments to bring your teeth back to life. You can avoid extractions and have a complete smile. Read more about how dental crowns your dentist, Dr. Ryan Ulibarri, and his team can help your smile.
What is a dental crown?
A dental crown is a tooth-shaped restoration which covers a failing tooth above the gum line. A modern porcelain crown looks real and is strong and durable. It can revitalize a tooth damaged by decay, multiple fillings, cracks, chips, abscess, and more. Crowns restore dental implants and teeth spared by root canal treatments.
How crowns work
In his Fort Collins, CO, office, Dr. Ulibarri uses visual inspection, digital X-rays, and other scans as needed to fully evaluate your oral health status and to determine if a crown is the right treatment for you. If it is, he'll use the amazing iTero digital scanner to take virtual impressions of your teeth. This information, plus more, goes to a dental lab for construction of your porcelain crown.
Additionally, your dentist will reduce the size and shape of your tooth, allowing it to accept the crown, to fit in with remaining teeth and to occlude, or close, with the opposing arch of teeth. You'll wear a temporary restoration until your new crown is ready for placement.
When you come back to Ulibarri Family Dentistry for your new crown, the dentist will remove the temporary cap and bond on the new one with a strong, permanent adhesive.
Caring for crowns
Whether you have a single crown or multiple restorations, or if you have crowns which support a multi-tooth bridge, one thing is critical: oral hygiene. That means:
- Brush twice a day
- Floss once a day
- Get six-month check-ups and cleanings
- Avoid hard foods, chewing ice, and grinding your teeth (crowns are not as flexible as your natural tooth enamel is)
With due diligence, your beautiful crown will last 10 years or more, says the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry.
Find out more
Your smile can shine when completed with a porcelain crown from Ulibarri Family Dentistry. To learn more about your options, please call us for a one-on-one consultation in Fort Collins, CO, at (970) 224-5599!