- A crown, sometimes called a "cap", is a tooth like covering placed over a carefully prepared existing tooth.
- Used to strengthen, restore or improve the appearance of your natural tooth, a crown is placed on an individual tooth much like a thimble over your finger.
- Crowns serve many functions in addition to being used to strengthen a tooth to accommodate the attachment of a fixed bridge.
- One of the most common is to support the tooth when there is no longer sufficient tooth structure left to place a filling.
- Crowns may also be used to protect the structure of a tooth that is fractured or broken.
