From Chipped to Charming: Same Day Crowns

If you have ever chipped a tooth, you know how it can detract from the natural charm of your smile. Sometimes a chipped tooth can even cause sensitivity or pain, tooth infections, tooth decay, and other complications that are not charming at all. Fortunately, same day crowns help you go from chipped to charming in a single office visit to our dentist in Charleston.  

Chipped teeth are more common than you might realize. About a quarter of all school-age children have damaged or broken teeth at some time, and about 80 percent of those aged 40 or over have cracked teeth. Dental crowns restore chipped teeth by simply covering them up.

Dental crowns can serve more than a cosmetic purpose, though – they can hold together a badly fractured tooth, for example, or protect a tooth recently saved with cavity repair or a root canal procedure.  

Same day crowns are an appropriate replacement for traditional crowns in most cases. These technically-advanced dental crowns may be used:

• After root canal treatment to address an infection deep within a tooth
• To strengthen teeth
• Cover dental implants
• Repair a cracked tooth
• Repair broken or decayed teeth
• Cover permanently discolored teeth
• Cover a misshapen or short tooth

The Same Day Crown Procedure

Traditional crowns usually require at least two trips to your dentist’s office. During the first visit, your dentist will prepare the tooth then create images of the tooth or teeth to be treated. Just a few years ago, dentists had to make impressions by having the patient hold a sticky, gummy adhesive in their mouths; the dentists then sent the molds to a dental laboratory, where technicians craft the patient’s dental crown. When the crown was ready, you would return to your dentist’s office for placement of that dental crown.

As its name suggests, getting your dental crown with a same day crown procedure means that you’ll walk in with a chipped or damaged tooth and walk out with a charming smile! What’s even better is that same day crowns require fewer numbing shots.

The same day crown procedure is quick and convenient. It starts by treating the tooth, which involves stabilizing any damage to the tooth and removing a very small amount of tooth enamel to make enough room in your mouth to fit the dental crown.  

Next, your dentist creates digital images of the tooth to be treated. Our Charleston dentist uses CEREC, which is an advanced method of creating crowns and other types of dental restorations. The system creates 3-dimensional images of the tooth and then uses a 3D printer to create your same day crown.

CEREC is an acronym that stands for Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramic. In simpler terms, CEREC is a system that allows your dentist to print dental restorations from ceramic, from the comfort of their office. Your dentist can use CEREC to print a wide variety of dental restorations, including same day crowns, veneers, inlays, and onlays.  

Benefits of Same Day Crowns from Your Charleston Dentist

There are so many benefits of same day crowns from our dentist in Charleston. Here are just a few:

• Durability – crafted from a single block of ceramic, same day crowns from CEREC can withstand years of chewing without failure
• Cosmetic appeal – the color of ceramics used to make same day crowns have a color that is more consistent with the natural pigment of tooth enamel; there are no metallic linings as seen in some types of dental crowns
• Speed – it takes less than an hour to print your same day crown, which makes it one of the speediest dental restorations available
• No human error – the risk for human error increases every time your images and data change hands between the lab and the off-site design; CEREC crowns are printed right in front of you, and directly from the information gathered by the digital images
• One-time appointment rather than 2 or more appointments to get your crowns

Dental crowns cost less than you might think

You may be surprised to find out that same day crowns cost about the same as traditional crowns. Why? Because making traditional crowns is a labor-intensive process, which costs more. Making a CEREC same dental crown in Charleston is a streamlined process that virtually cuts the entire process of getting a crown in half!

Can I Get Same Day Crowns from a Dentist Near Me?

Yes! Our dentist in Charleston can provide same day crowns. We also serve clients across the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge, so you can consider CHS Dental as your dentist in Mt. Pleasant too! Contact CHS Dental today to learn more about how you can go from chipped to charming with same day crowns in Charleston!

Can I Get Same Day Crowns from a Dentist Near Me?

Yes! Our dentist in Charleston can provide same day crowns. We also serve clients across the Arthur Ravenel Jr Bridge, so you can consider CHS Dental as your dentist in Mt. Pleasant too! Contact CHS Dental today to learn more about how you can go from chipped to charming with same day crowns in Charleston!