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In the past, when teeth were severely broken down, crowning them was the only option to provide a long term solution for making the tooth "whole" again. This is not true today.
Although crowns may still be the only solution in a tooth that has broken down on all sides, onlays can be used often to restore teeth that are missing half, two-thirds, three quarters, or seven-eights of a tooth. The reason for this improvement is the advances in tooth colored porcelain and resin materials, as well as our ability to adhere them to the teeth with technologically advanced adhesives and adhesive cements.
These restorations are made indirectly (we take an impression of your carefully prepared teeth) by labs that specialize in this area of dentistry. These onlays not only replace missing tooth structure like fitting a missing piece (the onlay) into a jigsaw puzzle (the tooth), but they make these teeth look unbelievably real! The onlay and tooth literally blend into each other.
Advantages of Onlays over Traditional Crowns
- Minimal Tooth Structure removed . We only replace what is broken, decayed, or weak. This allows us to keep this tooth more cleansable to your oral hygiene. Traditional Crowns end below your gumline, where you cannot access with your toothbrush. Onlays stay above the gumline wherever possible so you can keep them cleaner. Just because you had a Crown or Onlay done does not mean you will not have any more dental work done on these teeth in the future. So years later, when you do need to repair this tooth again, does it not make sense to be more conservative and preserve more tooth structure with an Onlay, than to remove more tooth structure with a Crown preparation?
- Physically bonds to the tooth . This ability to "bond" to the tooth makes this restoration optimal and we think makes it the finest option available.
- Superior Esthetics . The onlay is tooth colored and becomes invisible as it blends into your surrounding natural teeth.
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