Does wearing dental crown bad to your natural tooth?

If you do not like your crowns, what should you do?

Does wearing dental crown bad to your natural tooth?
This is a multiple considerations kind of question. Let me take the last part first. If you do not like your crowns, do what you do when you do not like your car. Go buy some new ones.





Is it bad for your natural teeth? First of all, a crown protects (generally speaking) the tooth that is "wearing" the crown. The main consideration is how much damage it may do to the opposing tooth. An all cast gold crown is the best neighbor another tooth can have. It will not wear out the opposing tooth and it wears just about as fast as natural tooth structure. Some porcelain crowns are actually rough if you look at them under the microscope. This surface roughness will wear out the opposing teeth, sometimes at an amazing rate. This is even worse if the patient with a crown grinds their teeth. The place that you see more damage than anywhere else is if you get (say) six crowns on your upper front teeth. After maybe ten years, it is very common to see that the lower front teeth have worn off quite a bit from chewing against the porcelain. I always try to make the back of front crowns - that do not show anyway - in gold to prevent this from happening. We have some newer porcelains that are supposeds to be better for the opposing teeth, but only time will tell if theory translates into reality.
Reply:no i have crowns and i've never had a problem