Should I get a dental crown?
Should I get a dental crown? This post is a continuation of a customer asking about damage to a crown due to jaw clenching. To understand teeth grinding and jaw clenching, click on the link to open a new window. Crowns are caps for damaged teeth or sometimes dental implants. Biological dentists are not typically in the business of using crowns, because they consider it outdated technology and they are aware of the issues, like "cleaning" problems and other physical functional malfunctions that can occur over time. The problem with the dental narrative might be that if you don't take good care of your mouth hygiene, you might get infection under your crown. But crowns can physically be damaged a lot by chewing hard, jaw clenching, getting punched, falling or just AGE. There are different material that crowns are made of also, and they all come with pros and cons. To put this into perspective, there are still dentists using amalgam fillings, while others have been schooled on the dangers [...]