Id like some feedback as to what your opinion is of a porcelain crown instead of gold .
this is my first after all these years and of course i dont have insurance to cover the cost .
The tooth is a back molur and the advice i have got from professionals and friends differant many say cause it is a back molur that is used for chewing the chances of a porcelain crown breaking is greater than that of a gold one .
my main concern is the gold cost about $100 more and the cost is of a major importance .
the life expectancy under normal conditiions of a porcelain crown is about 10/20 years . enought maybe for a old fart like me smile
The porcelain crowns are gold underneath. My most recent crown has a larger band of exposed gold on the inside, to provide more flexibility of the crown when chewing and reduced the likelihood of it cracking. My most recent crown is causing me some grief and I'm not a happy bunny right now. The other two have less exposed metal and have been fine. They say you lose a tooth for every child.....
I think it is really going to depend on the quality of the porcelain crown, and possibly also what caused the damage to the original tooth (how the weak spot occurred to let the decay in) -if the enamel was weakened by a bad bite, then your crown is going to take more of a beating than it should. I'm not a dentist, but these are the things they talked about.
10-20 years also seems a little optimistic, I don't know much about the life expectancy of a gold crown
hope this helps
Get the gold.
Dollar dollar bill, yo.
I seem to recall the porcelain costing more. Weird. Would make me wonder about the quality of the crowns your dentist uses.
I've had two molars crowned, both are gold. costs more but they last alot longer than the ceramic ones. I had a ceramic crown that broke up and I had them pull the tooth all the way out, it was a wisdom so I didn't really need it anyway. Gold'll cost you more but you wont be going back to the dentist in six months to have it repaired.
porcelain is the way to go. Don't want some bugger digging around yea gob, trying to steal the gold from yea teeth lol.
Had a crown a year or so ago and I am very happy with it. Think sometimes it depends on the skill of the dentist. But I must say the dentist here are way better than home, but expensive. Beats those metal fillings I had done back home and my dentist even took some of those out and replaced them with nice white ones.
As Monster says, they are gold or porcelain on gold, and i agree that the porcelain was more expensive.
My bottom jaw has mostly bridges and crowns, and the three bridges have been there since 1968. At that time, I also had caps on my two front upper teeth and a three unit bridge done. I've had to have two bridges re-cemented, and one of the caps had to be cut off and replaced because a cavity got under it. I've had two or three more crowns in the intervening years. Other than a few root canals, that didn't require the removal of the crown, they are still in place, and that's going on 40 years.
I should add that although the dentist says I'm hard on teeth, I needed the bridges to cover gaps from a hereditary shortage of teeth
I've had two molars crowned, both are gold. costs more but they last alot longer than the ceramic ones. I had a ceramic crown that broke up and I had them pull the tooth all the way out, it was a wisdom so I didn't really need it anyway. Gold'll cost you more but you wont be going back to the dentist in six months to have it repaired.
I would agree with Servy on this~Go Gold.
The dentists also seem more willing to fix one of their gold crown poblems,should it happen, at lower cost.If a problem happens on ceramic they say it's your problem :roll:
Also ask for "Easy Pay" to pay for it ie 4 or 5 equal payments over a year or so.
Dentist say we have 4 to many teeth in the modern human mouth, if we had less we could clean them better and they would grow straighter.
I needed the bridges to cover gaps from a hereditary shortage of teeth
You had a grandparent from Arkansas?
I needed the bridges to cover gaps from a hereditary shortage of teeth
You had a grandparent from Arkansas?
Was he also his Uncle and cousin :razz:
I needed the bridges to cover gaps from a hereditary shortage of teeth
You had a grandparent from Arkansas?
Was he also his Uncle and cousin :razz:
No, and I didn't go to family reunions to meet women, either. :lol:
I did try to back trace it but it appeared to srart with my mother, neither of her parents had the problem, and they were from separate places, he from Taunton and she from Bristol. Not far apart now, but much further apart, back in the first decade of the 20th century. On the other side, my grandfathwer was from Shropshire and my grandmother from Paris.
Gotta admit I've never heard of a shortage of teeth... although I seem to have the same issue somewhat. Neither me or my sister or I have wisdom teeth and in fact my kid sister (who is now 31) still has some of her milk teeth.
As I understand it from my friend whose hubby and children are missing adult teeth, these days they can use x-rays to tell that you are missing adult teeth, and so they do their best to preserve the milk teeth in those cases. It used to be that they assumed the adult teeth were there so they would let the milk teeth rot and then pull them.