The common term for a crown is cap that is placed on a tooth and it encircles that tooth completely.

It is used to strengthen a week tooth whether it be due to cavity and a huge filling that needsupport, Root Canal Treatment of a tooth, excessive wear and tear of a tooth or to close gaps between two teeth.

Crowns can be made of simple acrylic or plastic crowns, non-precious metal crowns, precious metal crowns, Zirconia crowns, Porcelain fused to metal or PFM crowns, full porcelain crowns and gold crowns.

To get a crown normally takes 2 visits.