Getting a dental crown in Ashburn is easy. But the crown should first and foremost fit your tooth. It also has to match the color of the rest of your teeth. Otherwise, it may look awkward.

A dental crown is pretty much permanent. As such we can't take any shortcuts in terms of strength. The crowns should be strong and tough.

In our clinic, the lab technicians always take the time and effort to create crowns of the highest quality. They go about their work in a really professional way. You can be sure that what we put on your teeth are durable and can last years and years. As a dentist, it doesn't get much better than that for me — that a porcelain crown lasts a long time, looks great and functions just like your natural tooth.

However, you should understand a permanent dental crown does not go in straight away. First, it takes time for us to produce the permanent crown.

Also, while prepping your tooth, we need to work on the affected area for the porcelain crown to be placed on it. To do this, we have to file away a bit of your natural tooth. Of course, you will want to be using your teeth and still smile as if nothing has happened. Basically, what we do is put in a temporary crown.

Here in my Ashburn dental office, we will make sure the makeshift crown you have will do the job quite well. It could perform for many weeks, probably even a month. Meanwhile, we will prepare a crown. The makeshift crown, though, must be soft enough to be pulled out. You should not have a well entrenched temporary crown because we might not be able to take it out.

It takes a bit of skill to make your crown. Before we start, we have to get the exact proportions of your tooth by making an impression of it. We do it to the affected tooth and the opposite one as well. This allows you the freedom to continue eating the kind of delicious foods that you are used to.

This will help us make temporary crowns at exactly the right height. We do this to let you chew to your heart's content. Then we put the material into the mold to make sure your temporary crown slots perfectly on to your affected tooth. We then must glue the crown on using a dental cement that keeps the crown firmly fixed but is also easily removed.

While the temporary crown will serve you well, I would still not recommend certain things. It is best you stay away from chewing on caramels, ice, and harder vegetables such as carrots. You'll only have to do this while we get your permanent crowd read for installation. Hopefully, we can see you here in the near future.