How do you put a crown over a tooth thats barely there?

Question

I mean the walls of one of my teeth are super low, but they said they could put a crown on it. but it would be very hard, possible though. I was wondering how they could do this? do they build up the walls or what?

Answer 1

Hhhhmm

They can build up the wall too.

Or if the crown is too smalll then they can do crown lengthening.

Answer 2

They are dentists....and do this everyday.

Answer 3

they would probably put a post core into one of your root canals and then build the tooth with some tooth-coloured filling material. This could then be light-cured to set it and then prepared to have a crown placed on top of it. This is probably the easiest way because if they just place the filling material without the post to support it there is a greater chance of the filling material weakining over time through biting forces and eventually fracturing. But as i don't know what ur tooth looks like i cant give a definite answer to what they would do

Answer 4

Yes, a tooth can be built up to support a crown. There are also other procedures that are done to give the dentist more solid tooth to work with.The dentist needs 2mm of good tooth to support a crown.