You are eating your dinner and you feel a sharp pain in your rear molar. While it is not unusual to feel slight pain in this area – you have felt such annoying pain for the last couple weeks – this time the sharpness of the pan is far more than what you had been [...]

Like the name implies, a crown is designed to sit atop a tooth that is too damaged to be fixed with a filling. This type of extensive damage can be caused by tooth decay, but it can also result from a tooth that has been cracked or chipped. There are other reasons people put crowns [...]