When you are finally hassle free from your tooth pain and done with the root canal treatment , the dentist usually suggests crown or cap on the teeth. Is your dentist earning money or crown is the need of your teeth!? Why we require cap /crown? After the root canal treatment the tooth becomes brittle. Since the cavity is deep the tooth structure is lost after proper cleaning. To strengthen the teeth and overcome brittleness of the teeth you need crowns. When we place crown the chewing becomes easy, we can effectively use the teeth for which it is designed. There are several other reasons other than a root canal when a crown/cap is indicated. What are the other situations? Due to severe wear of teeth , tooth weakens, the crown is indicated. To close the natural spaces in between teeth caps are given. To increase the teeth height in severe wear of teeth. To replace missing teeth. To correct the alignment of the teeth. So in the next read we will see the materials used to make th
So when finally you have pain and now the only option left is but to see the Dentist! You sit on the dental chair and now the dentist says - "iska toh root canal karna padega"! ( Your tooth needs a root canal treatment ). Now when exactly your tooth requires a root canal treatment!? The answer to this is when the decay goes deep down the layers of the tooth. Roughly speaking to know the 3 layers let's take an example of a choco bar ice cream! The ice cream has 3 layers upper chocolate then vanilla and then the hard chocolate!! When we go deep down the layers it tastes just awesome!! LAYERS OF TEETH Likewise the tooth has 3 layers , the more deeper the cavity the more severely it pains... As the caries go deep down , it affect the most interesting layer of the tooth called as Pulp! Whenever the decay goes that down, the pain , sensitivity to both hot and cold f