Crown Lengthening in North York

Other than the cosmetic and aesthetic reasons for undergoing a crown lengthening procedure, there are dental preparatory reasons to prepare your teeth for restorative work. If you need a dental crown or bridge, but there’s not enough tooth length to support the artificial restoration, then your dentist will recommend crown lengthening in our North York clinic.

Crown lengthening procedures are minor surgeries that don’t take longer than an hour and require a short recovery period. The way it works is that our local periodontist at Bayview Village Dental Specialists anesthetizes the surgical site in your mouth. Once the area is numb and you’re in a relaxed state, our local periodontist carefully creates flaps around the tooth and removes the excess soft tissue. Reaching a clear view of the bone tissue, our local periodontist reshapes the underlying bone according to the treatment plan to show the preferred tooth length we’re aiming for. Finally, the gums are placed over the bones again in an ideal position and sutured into place. After surgery, our local periodontist will discuss the postoperative instructions in detail with you. They usually include some dental hygiene instructions, some dietary regulations and probably medication or painkillers just for the healing period. After that, you can go on with your regular eating habits and daily life routines with no regulations at all.