Porcelain Veneers to Restore People’s Teeth – Shelby Township Dentist Explains
Hi, my name’s Dr. Antolak at thegentledentist.com in Shelby Township, Michigan. Our phone number’s 586-247-3500. One of the most unique and awesome things in dentistry within the last 10 years is the advent of porcelain. Being able to use all porcelain to restore people’s teeth and we’ve been able to do porcelain veneers for a while over the last probably 20 years or so. But we never had the strength inherent within the material itself to handle the back teeth what I want to do today is to show you a little difference between a porcelain fused to metal crown is versus an all porcelain crown. First of all this is a bridge that we took off of a patient who awhile back, it’s been sterilized. What I do is, I want to use this as an example to show you there’s metal here that’s based on it and then actually underneath. So there’s porcelain that’s baked over the top of the metal, so this is all one piece here and I’m just going to turn it over and show you, this is all metal here. And that’s how we use to get the strength of that. But, the disadvantage is that when light tries to shine through it. For example, I’m going to use this light here. I’m going to try to shoot light through that. You can see that there is no light that penetrates, obviously, through the metal. The effect of that is that when, in a front tooth especially, you will get a dark line, usually at the gum line around the tooth that has a porcelain fused to metal crown. And the reason why that is, is light is actually not allowed to be transmitted, through the tooth itself. And the light, the darkness of the crown, actually blocks any light from going into the root of the tooth. Now another example of something that we do nowadays is, it’s call an all porcelain crown. And we can see this one here is actually been made of its all porcelain. You can see its all white on the inside and on the outside. And this is just as strong as the porcelain to metal. And what I’m going to do is show you that with light.
You can see that same light that you can see it through it you can see how light transmits sort of through there. What that does it gives you the ability for light to be transmitted through the root, through the tooth and so it makes it look very natural eliminating that dark line that you’ll see on the gums here and also giving it much more of a natural appearance. With the porcelain infused to metal crowns it requires a layer there’s the, that silver metal that’s on there that requires a very thin level of an opaque. Now opaque will actually make that crown, it blocks out the grayness of that and makes it white. But it makes it dead white; it doesn’t allow the natural translucency to show through. And then there’s a portion, part of the portion that you saw on that bridge where the porcelain is baked over on top of it. It has the color, but it doesn’t have the lifelike appearance that an all-porcelain crown would have. So now, in my practice, I very, very rarely use metal under crowns for that exact reason. Also, metal that’s in some of these bridges. This contains nickel. Nickel is an allergen and unfortunately that can create allergies under gums and create redness around the gum line from this context allergy that develops from its crowns and unfortunately when you smell it in place your body is constantly exposed to that. Another disadvantage that metal has under crown is that different metals in the mouth will actually make an almost like a battery. For example, dental amalgam contains about 50% mercury and a number of other different metals. Well those are the silver fillings you see in the mouth, well that is a different metal than let’s say is on that bridge that I just showed you. Those metals interact with each other, creating a bad rating, actually creating a micro current in the mouth.
The saliva acts as it can’t do it. It conducts electricity back and forth and its actually you has a charge in your mouth, its low level but some nutritionists and those believe that there can be an issue that you don’t have balance within the electrolytes within your mouth and within your body. So that can affect it. So to eliminate possibilities like that we use out postmen in a number it looks better. It’s just as strong and also it’s I believe, healthier that we can place things like that in the mouth. So, if this is something that you’re interested in, for example, if, if you have a smile and you don’t like the, the gums around it where it looks dark or if the crown looks really opaque and just looks fake, there’s a solution for you.
Porcelain Veneers to Restore People’s Teeth – Shelby Township Dentist Explains
If you are interested in porcelain veneers to restore your teeth, give us a call at 586-247-3500, or visit our website at www.thegentledentist.com. Thank you, and have a blessed day.