All-Ceramic Crowns and Bridges
Our team at Parks Family Dental uses all-ceramic dental crowns and bridges to restore broken or missing teeth. These restorations are metal-free, which we believe are more aesthetically pleasing and comfortable for our patients.
We offer high-quality porcelain restorations that can enhance your tooth's function and perfect the appearance of your smile. To ensure a flawless fit, we take digital impressions of your mouth to create fully customized natural-looking, durable dental crowns and bridges that can last for many years.
Why Might I Need a Crown or Bridge?
Crowns fix many dental issues, such as breaks, chips, stains, decay, and weakness due to root canals. If we cannot repair a decayed or broken tooth using tooth-colored fillings, we can use a crown as a protective cap to cover large areas of the damaged tooth.
We also use crowns and bridges to bridge a gap in your teeth created by an extraction or tooth loss. Whatever your needs may be, we can help you find the best available treatment for your oral health and individual appearance.
Dental Crowns
A dental crown is a tooth-colored, durable cap that fits over a broken, damaged, decayed, or brittle tooth. Dental crowns protect the teeth from further damage, preserve the natural tooth’s structure, and drastically improve your a tooth's shape, strength, size, and appearance.
Dental Bridges
A dental bridge replaces one or several missing teeth, closing the gaps in your smile. It consists of a ceramic prosthetic tooth called a pontic that we secure to abutment teeth on each side of the tooth gap.
CEREC Same-Day Dental Crowns
CEREC same-day dental crowns are one of the many advanced technologies we offer at Parks Family Dental. CEREC is an acronym for “Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics,” also known as CEramic REConstruction. It relies on CAD/CAM (computer-aided design/manufacturing) technology to take quick impressions and create a precisely fitted ceramic crown.
We have a milling machine on site where we create your customized crowns so you can leave our dental office the same day with a new and improved smile.
What Is the Porcelain Crown and Bridge Process?
First, we take digital dental impressions of your mouth to create the crowns and bridges. If you choose traditional crowns, we send the images to a local trusted dental lab, where a trained specialist creates them for you.
It can take a few weeks for the lab to fabricate your final crown, so we'll place a custom-fit temporary crown to use in the meantime. If you prefer not to wait weeks for your lab-fabricated crown, we offer CEREC same-day dental crowns at our Mauldin dental office.
Before placing the crown, we prepare your tooth to create room for the restoration to fit. We smooth down the adjacent teeth for the bridge to allow the pontic teeth to easily and comfortably sit on top. Once we place the restoration, we shape and polish the crown to match the look of your natural teeth.
If well cared for, crowns and bridges can last up to 10 years or longer.
In addition to creating and placing all-ceramic crowns and bridges, we also perform restoration repair and adjustments. If you break or chip your crown or need your bridge adjusted, Dr. Parks and our team can fix it for you, so it looks, feels, and functions comfortably.
Reliable All-Ceramic Crowns and Bridges in Mauldin, SC
Our all-ceramic white crowns and bridges look more natural and can give you the comfort and stability needed to bite, chew, smile, laugh, and speak with confidence.
Please contact us today to learn more about our traditional and same-day custom crowns or schedule your consultation.
Frequently Asked Questions
At Parks Family Dental, we know your time is valuable, which is why we do our best to provide you with the treatment you need efficiently. Our highly experienced and expertly trained dentists can complete most restorative dental procedures in one day. We can attribute this continued success to our CEREC same-day dental crowns and digital scanning technologies.
Advanced Dental Technology
Our dental office uses digital scanning and computer-assisted technology to create all-ceramic dental crowns in a single dental appointment. These crowns are customized to match your surrounding teeth’s structure, appearance, and shade so your new and improved smile looks natural and beautiful.
CEREC Same-Day Crowns
CEREC, or Chairside Economical Restoration of Esthetic Ceramics, uses CAD/CAM (computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing) technology to quickly take digital impressions and create lifelike restorations. With this technology, we can create a perfectly fitted crown, onlay, inlay, or replace a prosthetic tooth on a denture or dental implant.
Custom-Made Just for You
Every treatment we provide is completely customized to fit each patient’s lifestyle, preferences, appearance, functional needs, and aesthetic goals. We use leading-edge technologies, techniques, and materials to give you the best opportunity to attain your dream smile.
Whether we repair a damaged crown on an implant or transform the appearance of your teeth and gums, we can ensure you are receiving the attention to detail and creative diligence you deserve.
Call us today to learn more about our restorative dentistry services and technologies.
Meet Our Doctor:
Dr. Lyle Parks
Dr. Lyle Parks is a hometown dentist who was born and raised in Greenville, SC. Inspired by a close family friend, Dr. Parks discovered his love for helping others have healthy smiles at a young age.
He’s a proud Riverside High School alumni, and he earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from The Citadel. In 2011, he graduated from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Parks is also a proud member of the American Dental Association, South Carolina Dental Association, and CEREC Doctors Study Club.
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All-Ceramic Crowns and Bridges Technology
Digital Impressions
Digital impressions, also known as 3-D intraoral scanning, capture a detailed replica of a patient’s mouth. Dr. Parks uses a wand-like tool connected to a computer to create a virtual model of your teeth, gums, jaws, and more.
After scanning the hard and soft tissues of your mouth, Dr. Parks sends the digital impression to a trusted dental lab where trained specialists create your custom crowns, bridges, dentures, or clear aligners.
Digital impressions are versatile as we use them for several treatments, and they are more accurate than messy traditional impressions.
CEREC Same-Day Dental Crowns
Among the many dental innovations we use at Parks Family Dental, CEREC same-day dental crowns are perhaps one of our patients' favorites. With CEREC same-visit crowns, we can restore your smile in a single dental appointment, so you don't have to wait weeks to chew, speak, and laugh comfortably again.
Dr. Lyle Parks takes a digital impression of your smile and creates a crown, or multiple crowns, using our on-site milling machine. Dr. Parks sits with you to review your aesthetic goals and oral health needs. We want you to be involved in the process, to ensure that your crown exceeds your expectations.
After your consultation with Dr. Parks, he creates your crown to complement your facial features and natural smile, so it looks and feels beautiful.
Many of our patients love CEREC same-day crowns because they are:
- Efficient
- Extremely accurate
- Comfortable
- Fully functional
- Convenient
This technology is a game-changer and can improve your smile in one day! To learn more about this innovative technology, please contact our office or read more about our services and procedures.