Tooth fillings, crowns, & bridges in East Longmeadow

Contact our dental office in East Longmeadow for top-quality fillings, crowns, bridges, or other dental restorations to help keep your teeth healthy and strong for many years to come.

A Dental Crown Is…

Dental crowns, also known as dental caps are tooth-shaped covers placed over teeth to restore their strength, size, and shape and improve how they appear. When tooth caps are cemented in place, they encase the whole visible part of a tooth.

A tooth crown can be used to protect a tooth weakened from decay or other cause from breaking. It can also be used to hold pieces of a cracked tooth together. You can use dental caps to restore extremely worn or already damaged teeth or support and cover a tooth that has a big filling and not a lot else of the tooth remaining. They can hold tooth bridges in position, cover dental implants or discolored or misshapen teeth, or provide cosmetic dentistry improvements to your smile’s appearance.

If you think you may need a dental crown, call our office right away and protect your teeth from any further damage.

Tooth Crown Types

You can get permanent dental crowns made of metal alloys like gold or of stainless steel, resin, ceramic or porcelain-fused-to-metal.

The dental crown cost will greatly depend on where in the mouth the crown is needed and the type of material it will be made from.

A Dental Filling Is…

If you visit our dental office in East Longmeadow with a cavity, the dentist will take out all the decayed parts of the tooth, then fill the hole. Fillings can be used to fix broken or cracked teeth too.

Dental Filling Types

You can have your teeth filled with porcelain, silver amalgam, gold, resin, or plastic.

Which tooth filling type is right for you depends on the extent and location of the tooth decay, as well as what your dentist recommends and the tooth filling cost.

Tooth Filling Procedure

First, your dentist will numb the area surrounding the tooth using a local anesthetic. Then, your dentist will remove all the decayed tooth matter and clean the area completely. Into this space, the dentist will place a tooth filling material. If you choose a tooth-colored filling material, there may be a few extra steps involved afterward.

A Dental Bridge Is…

Just as the name implies, dental bridges bridge the space where one or more teeth are missing. Bridges are built of one or more pontics, or false teeth, held in place by two or more crowns for teeth on each side of the space, known as abutment teeth. When natural teeth to use as abutment teeth aren’t available on both sides of the space, your dentist may install one or more implants to serve the purpose. You can get pontics made of porcelain, alloys, gold, or some combination thereof.

Dental Bridge Types

The three main kinds of tooth bridge are traditional bridges, cantilever bridges, and resin-bonded bridges.

With traditional bridges, your dentist makes crowns for teeth or implants to place on both sides of the area where the missing tooth was located. These secure pontics created to look like your natural teeth.

Resin-bonded tooth bridges are prosthetic gums and teeth supported by a framework made of porcelain or metal.

Dentist use cantilever bridges when only one side of the space has abutment teeth or implants to which to attach crowns to secure the pontics.

Your dental bridge cost will depend largely, though not entirely, on which of these types of tooth bridge you get.

What Type of Dentist Offers Dental Crowns, Fillings, and Bridges?

To restore damaged or missing teeth with dental bridges, dental crowns, or dental fillings, you can visit us at Alliance Dental Care. At our East Longmeadow dental office, you’ll receive a complete dental exam followed by a consultation on the recommended options you have for treatment. Our team will also go over any payment questions with you that you may have, including questions about insurance.

If you have any questions about the dental bridge, crown or filling procedure or dental crown cost, dental bridge cost or tooth filling cost, please give us a call at Alliance Dental Care today.