Crowns and Bridges

Damaged, missing or decayed teeth can severely impact your quality of life, making everyday activities like eating and speaking uncomfortable. At Parkville Dental Surgery, we offer comprehensive solutions for crowns and bridges in Melbourne, VIC, to restore your smile's function and beauty. 

Restore Teeth with Dental Crowns 

Dental crowns are custom-made caps placed over a damaged tooth to restore shape, size, strength and appearance. They are commonly used in severe decay, broken teeth, or following root canal treatments to reinforce the tooth's structure:

  • Tooth Restoration: Crowns can restore severely decayed or damaged teeth.
  • Aesthetic Improvement: Customised to match your natural teeth, crowns improve the visual aspect of your smile.
  • Dental Implant: Crowns often serve as the finishing touch for dental implants, completing the artificial tooth structure.

Bridge the Gap in Your Smile

Dental bridges replace missing teeth by anchoring artificial teeth between two existing teeth or dental implants. Missing teeth can lead to many issues, including shifting adjacent teeth, bite problems and a sunken facial appearance. Bridges can address these issues by filling the gap with durable, natural-looking artificial tooth or teeth: 

  • Smile Enhancement: Bridges fill the gaps left by missing teeth, improving the aesthetics of your smile.
  • Functionality: They enable better chewing and speaking, restoring lost functionality.
  • Prevent Shifting: Bridges prevent neighbouring teeth from drifting out of position by filling the gap.

The Crown and Bridge Process

Our team takes a comprehensive approach to assess your specific needs. We will use advanced diagnostic tools to guide you through the best restorative options suitable for your dental condition. 

Dental Crown Procedure

  • Tooth Preparation: First, we shape the tooth to ensure there's space for the crown. In severe decay, we may build up the tooth to support the crown.
  • Impressions: We take an impression to send to custom design the crown. 
  • Temporary Crown: We place a temporary crown to protect the prepared tooth while we create the final crown. 
  • Crown Fabrication: We send the impression to our dental lab partners, where skilled technicians fabricate the custom crown. 
  • Crown Fitting: Once the permanent crown is ready, we remove the temporary crown and cement the final crown in place, ensuring the perfect fit. 

Dental Bridge Procedure 

  • Tooth Preparation: The teeth adjacent to the gap (abutment teeth) are prepared by filing down to serve as anchors for the bridge.
  • Impressions: We take an impression of the prepared area used to design the bridge and ensure the perfect fit. 
  • Temporary Bridge: We place a temporary bridge to protect the prepared teeth and maintain the space while we make the final bridge. 
  • Bridge Fabrication: We send the impression to a dental lab where our lab partners fabricate the bridge.
  • Bridge Fitting: We fit, adjust and cement the final bridge into place, restoring the gap and function of your teeth.

Each step in both procedures is carefully executed to ensure you receive crowns and bridges that are aesthetically pleasing, functional and comfortable.

Need a Crown or Bridge in Parkville, VIC?

We invite you to contact Parkville Dental Surgery for a consultation. Our team is excited to help you regain the functionality and beauty of a healthy, vibrant smile!