Dental Crowns at BIDC Thailand Dental Hospital

Dental crowns are also know as dental caps or tooth caps. Dental crowns are used to fully cover over an existing tooth to restore teeth to a certain shape, size or function. Dental crowns provide strength and improves the appearance of the tooth

Dental crowns can be made of porcelain, metal (a gold and/or other metal alloy), or a combination of both.

Advantages of Dental Crowns

dental crowns protect damaged or weakened tooth
dental crowns cover discolored and irregular teeth
dental crowns may be used to improve cosmetic appearance or restores your smile
dental crowns aims to preserve natural function, position of the teeth and bite
dental crowns is used to restore teeth with large decay or strengthen teeth after root caanl treatment
dental crowns are used to compose bridge that replaces missing gaps in teeth
dental crowns acts as a false teeth over dental implants

Types of Dental Crowns

There are several types of dental crown materials. Namely porcelain fused to metal alloyed (PFM) crowns that comes with varying percentages of gold content and all porcelain crowns (such as IPS Empress, Cercon and Procera procelain materials)

Porcelain fused to metal (PFM) Crowns			All Procelain Crowns

PFM standard alloy crown	PFM noble crowns	Full Gold Crowns	IPS Empress Crowns	Cercon Crowns	Procera Crowns

BIDC Thailand Dental Hospital Dental Laboratories

At BIDC Cosmetic Dental Center, BIDC has its own dedicated in-house dental laboratories within its 7 storey dental building in ensuring quality checks and standards. This also enables immeidate chairside shade selection and adjustments as well as faster logistics and turnaround timings for more effective treatment scheudling. One dental laboratory specailizes in ceramic esthetic labworks. A second dental laboratory specailizes in dental proshetics (crown, bridge and dentures) over dental implants.

cercon lab Dental Lab