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A dental crown or dental bridge from 38th Street Dental can restore a comprised tooth or address tooth loss. When developing a custom dental restoration, Drs. Tasch and Meek use trusted dental laboratories to fabricate crowns and bridges. This allows our dentists to provide patients with the strongest and most lifelike results.
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A crown is a dental restoration that's used to restore fractured or broken teeth. Dental crowns are a way that we can restore broken or fractured teeth. Many times before a tooth receives a crown it will have a filling. Large fillings weaken teeth, and oftentimes cusps will break or teeth will develop hairline fractures. And crowns are a way to reinforce the tooth and restore function.
Bridge is a dental restoration that's utilized to replace one or more missing teeth. One way to think of a bridge is two crowns that are connected together by artificial teeth that kind of float over or hover over the gum tissue. Dr. Meek and I use dental laboratories to fabricate our crowns instead of fabricating them in-house because we feel like we can provide our patients with a superior product. Crowns that come out of dental laboratories are much stronger than what can often be created in a smaller dental office setting. The other aspect of using a dental laboratory is the ability to deliver a more aesthetic result.
