Crowns
Our office uses advanced technology and modern techniques to ensure the highest quality dental care with minimal discomfort.
Crowns
Our office uses advanced technology and modern techniques to ensure the highest quality dental care with minimal discomfort.
Dental Crowns & Bridges – Restore Your Smile!
Dental Crowns are a cosmetic restoration intended to improve your tooth’s shape or to strengthen it. Crowns are most often used for teeth that are broken or worn, or have had portions destroyed by tooth decay.
A crown is a “cap” cemented onto an existing tooth that fully covers the portion of your tooth above the gum line. In effect, the crown becomes your tooth’s new outer surface. Crowns can be made of porcelain, metal, or both. Porcelain crowns are most often preferred because they mimic the translucency of natural teeth and are very strong.
Dental Crowns
Dental Crowns or onlays (partial crowns) are needed when there is insufficient remaining tooth strength to hold a filling.
Unlike fillings, dental crowns which apply the restorative material directly into your mouth, a crown is fabricated away from your mouth. Your crown is created in a lab based on your unique tooth impression, which allows a dental laboratory technician to examine all aspects of your bite and jaw movements. Your crown is then sculpted just for you so that your bite and jaw movements function normally once the crown is placed.
Bridges
Dental bridges “bridge” the gap created by missing teeth.
A bridge is two or more crowns for the teeth on either side of the gap — the anchoring teeth are called abutment teeth — and a false tooth/teeth in between. These false teeth are called pontics and can be made from gold, alloys, and/or porcelain materials. Dental bridges are supported by natural teeth or implants.
For more information about Dental Crowns and Bridges and whether they are the right restorative solution for you, call us today (or use our handy form below). We’ll be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Insurance & Financing
We accept most dental insurances (note: at this time, we do not accept Mass. Health), as well as provide a number of easy-payment options to help make your care affordable. PLUS, since Great Hill Dental offers “one stop dentistry”, you can manage your costs through just one billing location, regardless of whatever treatment you may require.
In-Network Dental Plans
- Delta Dental of Mass: Premier and PPO
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Dental Blue: Indemnity and PPO
- Altus: All
- Cigna: PPO
- Aetna: PPO
- Assurant: PPO/DHA
- United Concordia: PPO/DHA
- Principal: All
- Metlife
- Guardian
- United Healthcare
Essential Dental Plan
Great Hill Dental accepts Essential Dental Plan which allows members to receive the dental care they need at the savings they can afford. Get instant access to significant savings on all dental services plus free exams and x-rays. Choose individual, two-individual, or family coverage and enjoy peace of mind knowing you can maintain your oral health. The Essential Dental Plan is not insurance.
Smile Now, Pay Over Time
Great Hill Dental Boston partners with Sunbit, a new way to get the treatment you need and pay over time. Sunbit offers patients a way to split their bill into monthly payments up to 72 months.
- No Hard Credit Check
- No Late Fees and Penalties
- See your options in 30-seconds
Care Credit
Care Credit is a third-party healthcare credit card that helps finance healthcare related costs. Care Credit extends special financing options that you can’t get when using your Visa or MasterCard. Whether you use your healthcare credit card to cover your deductible, or to pay for treatments and procedures not covered by insurance, CareCredit helps make them possible today.
