Zirconia / Ceramic Dental Crown

A custom crown that caps a damaged, root-treated or heavily filled tooth to restore its shape, strength and appearance. The clinic offers zirconia and metal-ceramic crowns made through a digital CAD/CAM workflow, with bridges built unit by unit to replace missing teeth between healthy supports. A temporary crown protects the tooth while the final restoration is made. Crowns are colour-matched to neighbouring teeth for a natural look.

A dental crown is a tooth-shaped cap that covers a tooth which has been weakened by decay, a large filling, a fracture or root canal treatment, rebuilding it to full shape and function while protecting what remains underneath. At Stomatologia Pietrzyccy crowns are made in zirconia or metal-ceramic and produced using the practice's digital CAD/CAM prosthetics workflow, which captures the prepared tooth with an intraoral scanner and designs the restoration to fit precisely. The tooth is first prepared and, where a lot of structure has been lost, rebuilt with a post-and-core for a stable base. A temporary crown — made in the office or in the laboratory — protects the tooth and maintains appearance while the definitive crown is fabricated. The finished zirconia or ceramic crown is colour-matched to the surrounding teeth and cemented once the fit and bite have been checked. The same approach extends to bridges, which span a gap left by a missing tooth using crowned teeth on either side as supports and are priced per unit. Crown and bridge work is associated with restoring chewing, protecting a vulnerable tooth and improving the look of the smile; the choice of material and design is discussed at a prosthetic consultation supported by digital scanning.