Dental Crowns – North Dallas, TX
Repair, Strengthen, & Protect Your Smile
At Coco Dental, we do everything we can to keep our patients’ teeth healthy and intact. However, whether you crack a tooth while playing sports or have a cavity that’s gotten too large, sometimes life just happens. Thankfully, we can repair, strengthen, and protect your smile with beautiful, custom-made dental crowns in North Dallas! Read on to learn more about this reliable restoration and how it can improve your life for years to come.
What Is a Dental Crown?
Sometimes called a cap, a dental crown essentially fits over the top of a tooth. This holds the tooth together and strengthens it so it can function normally. A crown also helps protect the tooth from future damage or decay, which can make all the difference between saving a tooth and needing to have it extracted in some cases. Plus, since they encapsulate the entire visible portion of a tooth, dental crowns can also be used to improve the appearance of teeth as well!
The Process of Getting a Dental Crown
It will typically take two appointments to repair a tooth with a dental crown. Once we’ve determined that a dental crown is the best choice for you, we’ll need to alter the tooth by removing a thin layer of enamel. This will make room for the crown so it fits in with the rest of your teeth seamlessly. We’ll then take impressions of the area and send that information off to a local dental laboratory. While your permanent crown is being fabricated with the help of those impressions, we’ll fit you with a temporary crown to keep your tooth comfortable and safe. In about two weeks, you’ll return to our office. We’ll replace your temporary restoration with your beautiful permanent crown and bond it into place. Once we’ve made sure that your bite is comfortable and that you’re pleased with the results, you’ll be ready to go out and enjoy your newly repaired smile.
Benefits of Repairing Teeth with a Dental Crown
Dental crowns are among our most common treatments, and its easy to see why. This restoration offers a variety of important benefits, like:
- Lifelike appearance that looks just like a natural tooth
- Ability to cosmetically enhance a tooth
- Strength to chew with confidence and without pain
- Protection from further damage, decay, or infection
- A relatively quick treatment with long-lasting results
- Potential to prevent the need for extraction and tooth replacement later in life
- Typically covered by dental insurance
If you think your smile may benefit from a dental crown, don’t hesitate to give us a call today!
Understanding the Cost of Dental Crowns
Dental crowns offer an incredible amount of versatility as a treatment, which is part of what makes them so effective. However, this also means that there’s a lot about these restorations that can vary between patients, and accordingly, there can be quite a diversity in the price of your care.
We’ll be able to give you a detailed estimate when we finally meet you in person, but here’s what you should know until then about the cost of a dental crown.
Factors that Affect the Cost of Dental Crowns
While you can’t know precisely what your dental crown is going to cost until you get your estimate, there are a few standards you may want to keep in mind if you’re budgeting for care. For one, it’s common to need some preliminary treatments before you actually get your restoration, like a root canal. You should factor the cost of these procedures into the overall price of your dental care.
Then there’s the price of the crown itself. Depending on the material your restoration is made from and the tooth it’s covering, this can vary a little bit. We’ll walk you through each of these decisions when we meet you in person.
Does Dental Insurance Cover Dental Crowns?
Dental crowns tend to fall well within the realm of what insurance companies are willing to cover. Depending on the nature of your plan you can typically expect to have around 50% of the cost of a dental crown covered. However, it’s important that you consult with your dental plan in order to make sure that you’re getting all the coverage you can.
Other Options for Making Dental Crowns Affordable
Even if you don’t have insurance, you shouldn’t have to skimp out on your dental care. For that reason, we work to offer financial options to our patients even if they’re uninsured.
For one, we’re currently offering specials on exams for new patients, as well as for emergency exams. This means that you have very little to lose if you come to us with an issue regarding your smile.
We also frequently work with CareCredit, a financing firm that provides low-to-no interest terms to those patients who qualify. If you’re intimidated by the prospect of paying for your care all at once, this could be the perfect option for you. If you’re wondering how you can make your dental crown affordable, reach out to us for an appointment and we’ll talk to you about the financial options available to you.