It's a type of dental crown. Dental crowns are tooth-shaped covers or caps you can use when your tooth is damaged, misshapen, or decayed beyond what a filling can fix. They fully cover your tooth, ...

A dental crown is a cap that fits over your tooth after it has been severely weakened by an injury, cavity, or dental work like a root canal. A crown can be made from a variety of materials, including ...

In the second article of this series we considered the broad range of materials from which crowns are made. The four main categories of crown were metal, ceramic, metal-ceramic and composite. Tooth ...