Crowns and Bridges

Permanent Replacements for Damaged or Misshapen Teeth.

Welcome to Red Hills Dental, where we prioritize your dental health to bring out your brightest smile. Dr. Matthew Bergman and our expert team are excited to introduce you to our top-notch service: Crowns and Bridges.

At Red Hills Dental, our Crowns and Bridges service is a vital component of comprehensive dental care. We understand that a healthy and confident smile is crucial for your overall well-being.

Benefits of Crowns

Restored Functionality: Regain the ability to eat, speak, and smile with confidence.
Aesthetic Enhancement: Achieve a natural and visually pleasing smile.
Prevention of Further Damage: Crowns protect weakened teeth, being stain-resistant, they help prevent further deterioration.
Long-lasting Solutions: Durable materials ensure lasting results.
Other Benefits: Safe, Translucent, Strong and Durable, Uncompromising Quality

Benefits of Bridges

Spacing: Maintain the space between teeth (tooth position) and prevent rotation and tooth “fall-in”
Stabilization: Stabilizing teeth with lost bone from periodontal (gum) disease which distributes forces and relieves trauma to adjacent teeth
Restoration: Restoring the Smile and eliminating dark spaces & compensatory forces, and balancing your bite
Improve: speech and pronunciation from a lost or missing front tooth
Aesthetic: Restoring or Creating esthetics from a lost or missing front tooth
Protection: against occlusion-related temporomandibular joint (TMJ) disorders

How It Benefits You

Our personalized approach to Crowns and Bridges focuses on:

Tailored Solutions: Customized treatment plans for your unique dental needs.
Enhanced Comfort: Experience improved comfort and functionality.
Boosted Confidence: Rediscover the joy of smiling with confidence.

Are crowns and bridges right for you?

Crowns and Bridges may be ideal for individuals experiencing:

Restoring a cracked or fractured tooth
Protecting a tooth after a large cavity
Replacing multiple missing teeth
Correcting an extremely discolored tooth
Completing a dental implant procedure
A full-mouth restoration treatment
Protecting worn teeth from further damage
Covering a tooth after root canal therapy
Part of a cosmetic treatment plan

Consult with Dr. Matthew Bergman to determine the best course of action for your unique needs.

Invest in your dental health with Red Hills Dental. Our Crowns and Bridges service is your path to a brighter, healthier, and more confident smile. Trust us to make your dental experience exceptional.

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What are crowns and bridges?

Crowns

Although your teeth are designed to endure several years of constant use, they are still vulnerable to decay, wear, and trauma. At Red Hills Dental, we understand how valuable a healthy, brilliant smile is, and that’s why we offer beautiful crown and bridge restorations.

A dental crown is a tooth covering that is used to repair a decayed or damaged tooth. A crown is sometimes called a cap and can cover a tooth down to the gum line, protecting it from further problems. Your custom crown looks, feels, and functions just like a traditional tooth. It restores the shape of your tooth while making it stronger. This procedure keeps your tooth root in place, preserving bone density and volume.

A dental crown becomes part of your tooth, providing new structure and protection. Dr. Bergman recommends dental crowns and bridges for renewing function and aesthetics simply and economically.

Our crown and bridge treatment process begins with optical scanning (intraoral imaging) for precise evaluation. Then we prepare the tooth by cleaning the decayed or damaged enamel and shaping your tooth. This shaping will allow your crown or bridge to fit correctly over your tooth. We then take precise impressions of your tooth using a digital optical scanner and send them to the lab to fabricate your custom crowns.

The dental lab can create your custom porcelain crown or bridge with a quick turnaround time of 10-14 days. Once your custom prosthetic is available, you will come for the second visit, and our dentist will place your restoration and make any adjustments to ensure a comfortable fit.

Bridges

A dental bridge is the combination of multiple crowns together. A bridge is permanently cemented in place and can be as small as two teeth. It can also be placed across two or more implants. Most often, a dental bridge is used to replace a missing tooth in between two other teeth. It is called a 3-unit bridge. The missing tooth in the middle is filled with a fake tooth called a pontic. Just as with a crown, a bridge can be made from different materials. The most reliable type of bridge is a porcelain fused to metal bridge. First, a metal structure is fabricated over the teeth. Then porcelain is stacked on top of the metal to create an esthetic replacement for your teeth. Zirconia bridges and E-Max bridges are great replacements where the biting forces are less and esthetics is of greater concern (particularly the front six teeth).

A dental bridge is the appropriate treatment option when the teeth surrounding the empty space already have large fillings or crowns. A dental bridge is a quick and effective way to restore your dental health. A bridge can be fabricated in just two weeks and it will look and feel like natural teeth. In the interim a temporary bridge is placed. You do not go without teeth when a dental bridge is made.

Pricing For Crowns & Bridges

Crowns Pricing

Insurance companies submit statistics on fees charged for procedures. For 2020, the typical fee reported in St. George, UT for a Zirconia or E-Max crown ranged from $1,070 on the lower end to $1,363 on the higher end. So, a crown can range from around $1,000 to $1,400 in Southern Utah. Of course, there are outliers to reporting statistics, meaning you may find crowns cheaper or more expensive. Furthermore, these are cash-paying fees and insurance contracted fees are not included in this reporting. At Red Hills Dental, our fee for a crown with savings from our In-Office Membership Plan will be $965 as of 2020. We strive to make high quality dentistry affordable and convenient.

Same-Day Crowns Pricing

The cost of same-day crowns is the same as if they were produced by a lab. Why is that? Because the machinery for milling and sintering same-day crowns can cost well over $100,000. . In New York or San Francisco that can easily be $3,500 but in St George, Utah it is between $1,000 and $1,500. Furthermore, in order to make the machinery financially viable, most dental offices have a minimum number of crowns they have to mill each month. It’s simple math. The incoming numbers have to be larger than the outgoing numbers. So, there is often a bias when offices perform same-day crowns. They are favored over lab crowns. For the same reason, if an office has chosen to accept a number of low paying insurances, more high-paying procedures or more volume has to be realized in order to stay in business. At Red Hills Dental, we do not compromise our quality for any numbers. At this time, Dr. Bergman does not perform same-day crowns but that may change as technology and materials progress.

Bridges Pricing

A few factors determine the fee of a dental bridge; the number of teeth replaced, the material used, the health of the supporting teeth, and geographic location. The number of teeth that are being replaced will affect the fee. Naturally a longer bridge takes more expertise and requires more material and lab work to produce. Materials make a difference as well. Porcelain fused to a gold alloy will be more expensive that porcelain fused to a silver alloy. It is reasonable to assume that more expensive materials will result in higher fees. The supporting teeth may require additional treatment to help retain a bridge. If the teeth are badly broken down or the fillings have decay, treatment is required to adequately support a bridge. Or instead of teeth, implants may be used to retain a bridge. Because implant supply costs add up on top of lab costs, an implant bridge is a higher fee than a traditional bridge. Finally, Southern Utah is one of the most economical places to have dental work performed in the United States. The dental fees in St. George specifically are 20-50% lower than most major cities. The fee for a 3-unit bridge at Red Hills Dental with our In-Office Membership Plan is approximately $2,762 as of 2020. A bridge is not always the best solution for missing or lost teeth but when it is, Dr. Bergman has made thousands of them and uses high-quality materials and top-of-the-line lab services.

FAQs

Is the procedure painful?

Our team ensures a comfortable experience, and local anesthesia is used to minimize discomfort.

How long do crowns and bridges last?

With proper care, Crowns and Bridges can last for many years, providing a long-term solution. On average, a bridge is expected to last 7-10 years. Good oral hygiene plays the biggest role in the longevity of the bridge. When bridges are not properly cared for, decay can develop underneath them within 12 months; however, a well-made bridge can last for decades. Historically, insurance companies pay for bridge replacements after 5 years. When a dental bridge fails, all replacement teeth are affected. For this reason an implant is a superior treatment alternative when the adjacent teeth are in good condition.

Is there downtime after the procedure?

Recovery is typically quick, and you can resume your normal activities shortly after.

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Ready to transform your smile? Schedule your Crowns and Bridges consultation with Dr. Matthew Bergman today. Your journey to a healthier, more radiant smile begins here!