Dental Crowns in Summit & Westfield, NJ
Do you have a toothache that won’t go away, sudden sensitivity to hot and cold foods and beverages, or a crack in your tooth from an injury? You may have a damaged tooth that needs a crown. Dental crowns, also known as dental caps, are versatile restorative solutions that completely cover damaged or weakened teeth to restore their shape, size, strength, and appearance. When you have tooth damage a simple filling can’t address, a crown provides comprehensive protection while preserving your natural tooth structure.
At The Dental Studio, we provide state-of-the-art, compassionate, comprehensive dental care in a comfortable, family-friendly environment. Our experienced New Jersey dentists, including Dr. Butensky, Dr. Bremmer, and Dr. Hosny, specializes in advanced restorative techniques to help patients in Summit and Westfield maintain healthy, functional, and beautiful smiles. With the restored strength and appearance a crown provides, you can leave our office feeling confident and comfortable with your smile.
What Are Dental Crowns?
Dental crowns, also known as caps, are custom-made restorations that fully cover a weakened, cracked, or misshapen tooth. They restore your tooth’s strength and natural appearance while preserving the underlying tooth structure.
Crowns can be made from materials such as porcelain, ceramic, composite resin, and metal alloys. Porcelain dental crowns are especially popular for their ability to blend seamlessly with surrounding teeth, offering both strength and beauty. Crowns are a common solution in restorative and cosmetic dentistry, addressing a range of concerns including:
- Restoring teeth that are cracked, worn down, or broken
- Protecting teeth after root canal therapy
- Replacing large or failing fillings
- Covering discolored teeth that don’t respond to whitening
- Supporting a dental bridge by anchoring it to adjacent teeth
When Are Dental Crowns Needed?
Dental crowns can be made from various materials, including stainless steel, gold, or another alloy, porcelain, resin, and ceramic. Our trusted professionals work closely with you to choose the right material based on your unique oral health and personal preference.
In addition to their versatility in material, crowns also serve multiple purposes in restorative dentistry, including the following:
Protecting Weakened Teeth
Severely damaged or decayed teeth and teeth treated with root canal therapy often lack sufficient healthy structure to function properly. A durable crown that covers the entire tooth surface provides critical protection, preventing further damage and potential tooth loss.
Restoring Fractured Teeth
Significant tooth cracks or fractures are often too large for a filling to correct. Crowns completely encase the damaged tooth, distributing bite forces evenly and preventing the fracture from worsening.
Replacing Large Fillings
When a tooth has an extensive filling that comprises more than half of the tooth structure, it becomes vulnerable to fracture. A crown provides superior protection and longevity compared to repeatedly replacing large fillings.
Supporting Dental Bridges
Crowns serve as abutments, or anchors, for fixed dental bridges, providing stable support for replacement teeth when one or more adjacent teeth are missing.
Covering Misshapen or Discolored Teeth
For teeth with significant imperfections that cosmetic dental treatments like teeth whitening or bonding can’t address, crowns provide a complete aesthetic solution that helps boost your confidence.
What to Expect During the Dental Crown Process
With nearly 90% of adults aged 20 to 64 having tooth decay, crowns are a routine procedure for a common issue. However, we understand the nerves that come with getting a dental treatment. At The Dental Studio, your comfort and safety are our top priority, so we take the time to explain the process of getting a dental crown before we begin the procedure, which typically requires two appointments.
During the first visit, we take the following steps:
- Examination: Closely assessing your teeth and taking X-rays to evaluate your tooth’s condition
- Tissue removal: Removing damaged or decayed tissue from the affected tooth
- Tooth reshaping: Removing a small amount of enamel from the tooth to ensure the crown fits comfortably
- Impressions: Taking impressions that a laboratory will use to create your custom crown
- Temporary crown: Placing a temporary crown to protect the tooth while your final one gets fabricated
When your final crown arrives, we schedule your second appointment to remove the temporary restoration, check the fit and appearance of the permanent crown, and bond the new crown to your tooth. With the proper care, including brushing, flossing, and regular cleanings, your crown can last for up to 15 years.
Benefits of Getting Dental Crowns at The Dental Studio
Treating tooth damage as soon as possible is crucial for preserving your natural teeth. Crowns provide the protection and support your tooth needs to avoid future damage. We offer state-of-the-art dental crown options that provide the following advantages:
Comprehensive Protection
Dental crowns give 360-degree protection to your damaged teeth, completely encasing the visible portion above the gumline. This comprehensive coverage distributes bite forces evenly, prevents further damage to weakened structures, and helps preserve the underlying natural tooth.
Natural Appearance
Modern dental crowns blend seamlessly with your natural teeth, using advanced materials and custom shading techniques. This approach mimics the translucency, color, and light-reflecting properties of natural tooth enamel, ensuring your restoration is virtually indistinguishable from your surrounding teeth.
Restored Function
If you have a damaged tooth, everyday activities like eating and speaking can become challenging. Dental crowns restore full functionality to compromised teeth, allowing you to bite, chew, and speak with confidence. This restoration of proper function also prevents other teeth from shifting or experiencing excessive wear.
Improved Comfort
Damaged teeth often have sharp edges or irregular surfaces that irritate your tongue, cheeks, or lips. Crowns provide smooth, properly contoured surfaces that enhance comfort during everyday activities and eliminate discomfort.
Long-Term Durability
Dental crowns can last 10-15 years or longer with the right care. Their durable materials and precise fit provide a long-term solution for damaged teeth, making them a cost-effective investment in your oral health compared to treatments that may require more frequent replacement.
Schedule Your Crown Consultation Today at The Dental Studio in Summit & Westfield, NJ
Don’t let damaged or weakened teeth affect your confidence or oral health any longer. At The Dental Studio, our experienced team offers state-of-the-art dental crown solutions that can restore your smile’s appearance and function in as little as one visit with our same-day crown technology. We proudly provide compassionate, comprehensive dental care tailored to your specific needs.
Take the first step toward a healthier, more beautiful smile today. Contact our Summit dental implant specialist at (908) 273-1525 or our Westfield dentist at (908) 232-8455, or complete our contact form to schedule your consultation and discover how dental crowns can transform your oral health and confidence.
Yarden’s Smile Makeover: 5 Dental Procedures to Look 10 Years Younger
Most of us reach a point in our lives when we look in the mirror and notice a little age starting to show, and some of us may begin to consider ways to turn back the clock a bit. While skin care and cosmetic facial procedures tend to be the most common approaches, some sensible dental work can make you look a full decade younger. We see it all the time with our patients, and it’s remarkable!
Dr. Butensky’s long-time friend Yarden came to him all the way from Miami with teeth worn down due to bruxism. She’d been involuntarily grinding her teeth since childhood and, in her late 30s, determined to repair the damage that habit had done to her teeth. Yarden is a physician who understands that everyone deals differently with stress; and so many of us internalize it in ways that can cause undue wear and tear to our bodies.
It’s essential to address the stress itself, its causes, and its effect on our lives in order to care for body and mind. But once we’ve done this, are we stuck with the marks that stress has left on our appearance? No! At The Dental Studio in Summit and Westfield, NJ, Dr. Daniel Butensky specializes in Smile Makeovers that can resurrect your younger smile. Yarden’s veneers and crowns were life-changing. She is more confident in her career, feels free to smile big for her infant son, and has, for the first time since childhood, happily started to allow photos of herself and proudly share them.
What might it look like for you to reverse the signs of stress or aging in your smile? Following are the top five dental procedures that can rejuvenate your appearance and make you look 10 years younger.
Porcelain Veneers
When you see those perfect Hollywood smiles, that’s usually thanks to the magic of porcelain veneers. These thin, custom-made shells are designed to cover the front surface of your teeth, providing an instant transformation. Veneers are ideal for making imperfections like discoloration, chips, and gaps disappear. They can also work wonders for improving regularity when teeth are misshapen, like in Yarden’s case. Veneers are best for rejuvenating healthy and minimally restored teeth, but if you have extensive restorations, such as large fillings or onlays, then you still have options! And that brings us to…
Dental Crowns
Dental crowns offer an outstanding option for replacing damaged teeth with beautiful, durable porcelain restorations. These custom-made caps replace the entire crown of the tooth to erase wear, discoloration, and other imperfections. Crowns repaired Yarden’s back teeth, where tooth shape and bite force make veneers inappropriate. Dr. Butensky used crowns to build her molars back up where she’d lost nearly all of her enamel. The benefits of dental crowns as part of a Smile Makeover include:
Dental crowns offer an outstanding option for replacing damaged teeth with beautiful, durable porcelain restorations. These custom-made caps replace the entire crown of the tooth to erase wear, discoloration, and other imperfections. Crowns repaired Yarden’s back teeth, where tooth shape and bite force make veneers inappropriate. Dr. Butensky used crowns to build her molars back up where she’d lost nearly all of her enamel. The benefits of dental crowns as part of a Smile Makeover include:
- Aesthetics + natural appearance: Porcelain is miraculous in its ability to mimic the appearance of our natural teeth. Additionally, a crown—with the help of a dental implant—can also fill in for a tooth that’s missing.
- Strength + longevity: The strength of dental crowns is one of their most notable benefits. Crowns sometimes last decades. They can break and require repair or replacement, but these incidents are few and far between.
- Biocompatibility: Besides its good looks, dental porcelain is highly biocompatible, meaning it is well-tolerated by the human body, causing minimal adverse reactions when used in dental restorations.
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Dental Bonding
A step in the opposite direction—less intervention than veneers—is something called dental bonding. We use the same material for this as for tooth-colored fillings, but what we’re filling in this case might be a chip or minor crack instead of a cavity. Bonding is a quick, painless, and inexpensive procedure that can fix some imperfections, even gaps (diastema) in some cases.
Teeth Whitening
Another quick and easy approach to a more youthful smile is teeth whitening. As we age, the enamel on our teeth wears away, causing the yellow layer underneath (dentin) to show through. At The Dental Studio, we offer in-office whitening treatments that can significantly lighten the shade of your teeth.
Teeth whitening is a small measure that can go a long way on its own, or many patients choose to pair whitening with their clear aligner treatment, finding that once they possess a fuller and better-aligned smile, whitening provides a lovely icing on the cake.
Clear Aligners
Aside from discoloration, one of the most common signs of aging we see in teeth is dental arch collapse, where teeth begin to point inward, which can lead to a sunken facial appearance. Clear aligners, or clear braces, offer a discreet and convenient way to straighten your teeth and bring back a more youthful facial structure.
These custom-made aligner trays are virtually invisible, and you can easily take them out for eating and brushing. This convenience makes clear aligners a tremendously popular choice for adults looking to gain a broader, more vibrant smile and improve their long-term dental health.
BONUS: Botox and Fillers
We’ve already covered five dental procedures, but consider this a bonus! Botox and dermal fillers are not dental procedures in the strictest sense, but your dentist at The Dental Studio can absolutely provide them! These cosmetic treatments are quite often part of a Smile Makeover.
As a cosmetic service, Botox reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles in and around the following areas:
- Mouth
- Eyes
- Forehead
- Chin
- Jawline
- Neck
This non-invasive injectable treatment smooths out facial skin by relaxing the nearby muscles, giving a younger look and adding to your beautiful smile. Botox can be a standalone treatment, or it may add extra sparkle to other cosmetic dental improvements.
Dermal fillers are another injectable cosmetic treatment that we offer to our Smile Makeover patients. Fillers add volume to the face, reducing the appearance of wrinkles and sagging skin. The basis for this treatment is in something your body produces on its own, though we make less of it as we age—hyaluronic acid. Dermal filler gives your body a little boost of this molecule, which helps your skin hold water, giving it a plumper (younger-looking) quality.
At The Dental Studio, we believe everyone deserves to smile with confidence. We work with the top labs in the country to provide you with the best custom-made aligners and porcelain restorations, ensuring your Smile Makeover is both beautiful and long-lasting. Whether you’re interested in a complete Smile Makeover or a specific standalone cosmetic procedure, we’re here to guide you through every step of the process. Schedule a consultation at our Summit or Westfield location today and take the first step towards looking 10 years younger!
FAQs About Dental Crowns
How long do dental crowns last with proper care?
With proper care, dental crowns can last 10–15 years or even longer. Brushing, flossing, avoiding very hard foods, and keeping up with regular dental visits help maintain your permanent crown and surrounding natural teeth.
What are same day crowns and how do they differ?
Same day crowns are created and placed in a single visit using advanced CAD/CAM technology. Unlike traditional crowns, which require two appointments and a temporary crown, same day options eliminate the wait while delivering a durable, aesthetic restoration.
Are porcelain dental crowns strong enough for back teeth?
Yes – porcelain dental crowns are highly durable and can be used on both front and back teeth. For patients who need extra strength, we may recommend porcelain fused to metal or zirconia for enhanced resistance to chewing pressure.
What is the difference between dental crowns and dental bonding?
Dental bonding is a more conservative cosmetic procedure using resin to correct minor issues. Dental crowns provide full coverage and are better suited for teeth with extensive damage or fractured teeth, offering longer-lasting results.
Does getting a dental crown hurt?
Most patients experience little to no discomfort during the dental crown process. Local anesthesia is used during preparation, and any post-treatment sensitivity typically resolves within a few days. The process is safe, efficient, and highly predictable.
