Crowns and Bridges in Hampton Park
Most of us will need a tooth repaired or replaced throughout the course of our lives, and that’s where restorative dentistry plays an integral role in the health of your smile. We offer durable porcelain crowns and bridges as well as tooth-coloured restorations at our Hampton Park dental clinic to keep your smile healthy, beautiful and provide the function you need to chew and enjoy your food.
What Is a Dental Crown and When Do I Need One?
A crown covers your entire tooth, mimicking its shape and shade, so it blends seamlessly with your smile. Porcelain crowns provide excellent durability and beautiful aesthetics, so you’ll have a restoration you can rely on for many years. Treatment outcomes vary between individuals. Your dentist will discuss what results are realistic for your circumstances.
Our dentists may recommend a tooth crown in these situations:
- To strengthen a tooth that’s had root canal treatment
- To restore a severely fractured, broken, or cracked tooth
- To replace an old, broken-down filling
- To be a single-tooth replacement for a dental implant
- To cover an oddly shaped or discoloured tooth
Tooth crowns allow you to restore your smile while providing an aesthetic improvement and function, and preserving the integrity of your natural tooth.
What Is a Dental Bridge?
If you’re struggling with one or multiple adjacent missing teeth, a dental bridge might be your solution. A bridge consists of sturdy anchor crowns that support one or more prosthetic teeth in between. The crowns anchor to healthy teeth and fill the gaps in your smile so you can smile, chew, talk and eat with ease again.
What’s the Process for Getting a Crown or Dental Bridge in Hampton Park?
Whether you need a tooth crown to restore your smile or a dental bridge to replace missing teeth, the process is similar and straightforward.
Once you’ve decided upon your restoration with your dentist, we’ll schedule you for two appointments at Hampton Park Dental. During your first visit, our dentist prepares your tooth for its new crown or bridge.
We’ll take impressions of your teeth and share our specifications with a trusted dental lab that will make your restoration. We’ll also create a temporary crown or bridge you’ll wear while the dental lab creates your new restoration.
When your crown or bridge is ready, you’ll return to our dental clinic to have one of our dentists cement it securely in place. They’ll adjust it as needed to ensure your bite is comfortable and functioning correctly.
Are You Struggling with a Broken or Missing Tooth?
If you’d like to learn more about restoring your smile with a bridge or dental crown in Hampton Park, we welcome your call. We’re happy to provide you with the information you need to make the best decisions for your smile and dental health.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! If you're considering extensive dental treatment, we can help you gain early access to your superannuation funds to help you cover the cost of your treatment. Early super access can be ideal in these situations:
- You or at least one family member have superannuation funds
- You don't have personal health fund insurance
- It would be a financial hardship to cover the cost of your treatment with personal resources
Our team can help you with the paperwork for early super access while a SuperCare representative walks you through the rest of the process. You can contact our team for more information on early super access.
Note: Accessing superannuation for dental treatment is subject to eligibility and approval by the relevant government agency. We can assist with the process, but approval is not guaranteed.
Other Convenient Payment Options
If early super access is not an option for you, we do offer other options that can help reduce your out-of-pocket expenses for dental care, such as:
- Preferred provider status with several private health funds, including Medibank, Bupa, HCF, NIB, CBHS
- Relationships with third-party companies that can offer affordable monthly payment plans, like Humm, Afterpay, TLC
- Medicare Child Dental Benefit - Bulk billing
- HICAPS claims processing
Eligibility for health fund benefits, payment plans, and superannuation access varies depending on the provider and individual circumstances. Terms, conditions, and lending criteria apply. Please check with your health fund or finance provider to confirm your eligibility before treatment.
If you need help sorting out the best payment arrangement for your dental care, please get in touch with your Hampton Park dentist and speak with one of our knowledgeable and helpful team members.
The cost of dental treatment depends on the type of procedures you need, and it's very specific to each patient's unique needs. The best way to determine the cost of your treatment is to book an evaluation with one of our dentists to determine your own treatment needs.
During your evaluation, our dentists discuss your oral health goals with you and gather information about your smile and dental health with an exam, x-rays, and photos of your teeth. After your evaluation, you'll clearly understand your treatment needs and options, what your timeline looks like for finishing, and the cost.
Payment Options for Every Budget in Hampton Park
We don't want finances to keep you from getting the dental care you need, so we offer several excellent options for payment or to help reduce your out-of-pocket expenses.
- Preferred provider status with several private health funds, including Medibank, Bupa, HCF, NIB, CBHS
- Early access to superannuation funds for extensive dental treatment
- Relationships with third-party companies that can offer affordable monthly payment plans, like Humm, Afterpay, TLC
- Medicare Child Dental Benefit - Bulk billing
- HICAPS claims processing
Your Hampton Park dentist can help you navigate your payment options to ensure you can comfortably fit your dental treatment into your budget
Please Note: Eligibility for health fund benefits, payment plans, and superannuation access varies depending on the provider and individual circumstances. Terms, conditions, and lending criteria apply. Please check with your health fund or finance provider to confirm your eligibility before treatment..
Meet Our Dentist:
Dr Siew Yong
(DEN0001623215) Registered Dentist, General Registration
Siew graduated from the University of Cardiff (UK) with a Bachelor of Dental Surgery in 1993 and moved to Australia in 2011.
Siew has over 20 years of experience in all areas of dentistry and excels in complex treatment like oral surgery, root canal treatment, full mouth rehabilitation, cosmetic dentistry, and orthodontics. She is great with several types of Orthodontic treatment, including Invisalign, MyoBrace, FastBraces and Traditional Braces.
She has a very gentle, calming, and nurturing persona, making patients feel at ease. As a mother to two children, Siew ...
Crowns and Bridges Technology
Digital Impressions
If you've ever had an impression taken of your teeth in the past, you may remember how messy and uncomfortable they were. Gone are those days! These days, we can scan your teeth to create a 3-D digital impression that we can send to dental labs, use to plan treatment or create restorations.
Digital impressions make dentistry more comfortable for our patients while providing a more precise and accurate image for our dentists.