Like porcelain veneers, aesthetic porcelain crowns or bridges can provide strong, functional, and great looking restorations to a single tooth or multiple teeth to provide a beautiful smile.

Porcelain crowns are similar to veneers though cover the whole of the tooth, thus providing complete protection to the tooth and also helping to provide a refreshed look to the tooth or teeth being treated. All porcelain crowns have similar aesthetics to porcelain veneers and help to improve the appearance of broken, chipped, discoloured, malformed, or heavily filled teeth. Porcelain crowns also offer the advantage of improving the alignment of the teeth, if there is minor crowding or spacing present. There is a requirement to prepare the tooth in order to place the crown on the tooth though with all porcelain crowns this is less as compared to porcelain fused to metal crowns. Porcelain crowns are a strong, durable, and aesthetically pleasing restoration which has a long life span, provided it is well maintained. See our treatment gallery for examples of this type of treatment.

Porcelain bridgework is a treatment option to help replace one or more missing teeth either in the front or back of the mouth, using the teeth either side of the space to help support and retain the bridge in place permanently. Your dentist will assess the health of the teeth and gums for the teeth, which could potentially support the bridge and discuss with you the suitability of this treatment option for you, and any other suitable alternatives (such as implants). The process of having a porcelain bridge made is similar to the procedure for a crown and the selected tooth/teeth are prepared and a mould of the tooth is then taken for the construction of the bridge. While the bridge is being made at the lab by our specialist dental technicians, a temporary crown or bridge will be made to cover the prepared teeth. When you return on the fitting appointment, the temporary crowns/bridge will be removed and the new bridge is tried in and checked for precision fitting and aesthetics along with a check of your bite. Once all is satisfactorily checked and assured and most importantly you are happy with the result the bridge will be permanently fixed into place. See treatment gallery for examples.