Crown Lengthening

Crown Lengthening

Dentists want their patients to keep their natural teeth and will often go to great lengths to make it happen. It’s one of the reasons why many dentists will fill a patient’s cavity instead of pulling the tooth and creating an open space in the mouth.

Dentists, in some cases, will help a patient keep an infected tooth by using the technique known as crown lengthening. The procedure doesn’t actually lengthen the crown of the tooth, but instead remodels the contour of the gum line. By lowering the gum line, the dentist creates more space on the tooth to work with when it is time to attach a crown.

Crown lengthening at Apopka Smiles may be the only option available to our dentist if the patient lacks the necessary tooth structure to securely anchor a crown. In cases where a patient’s tooth has been broken below the gum line, crown lengthening can be used to expose more of a tooth, giving the dentist more surface space to work with.

Call Apopka Smiles today at 407-788-6888 today for more information on crown lengthening.

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