Porcelain teeth are artificial teeth that have the same shape, size and color as real teeth. Porcelain teeth cover the outside of real teeth to help overcome defects on teeth, bringing high aesthetics. However, not everyone uses porcelain teeth for as long as desired. Why is that? How often do porcelain teeth have to be replaced? Let’s find out with My Auris through the following article.
How often do porcelain teeth have to be replaced?
All-ceramic teeth, despite their high cost, have a long average lifespan, needing to be replaced after 10-15 years. In particular, all-ceramic teeth with high-quality porcelain materials and good hygiene regime can last up to 20-25 years, even forever.
Each type of porcelain tooth has an average lifespan. During this time, teeth may become discolored or easily cracked and customers need to replace them to ensure aesthetics, chewing and oral health. However, if porcelain teeth are still beautiful after a period of use and do not develop any diseases, customers do not need to replace them.
A bright, white, radiant, confident smile is what everyone desires, especially women. Therefore, porcelain teeth are increasingly chosen by a large number of customers to fix defects in their teeth.
After porcelain tooth restoration, the teeth on the jaw not only bring aesthetic beauty but also perform good oral functions such as chewing, hygiene, pronunciation, etc. However, there are many customers who are worried about the cost of making porcelain teeth without knowing how long they will last and whether they need to be replaced periodically or not.
According to doctors, the time to use porcelain teeth will be different for each customer due to many influencing factors. Especially dental materials. Accordingly, metal-ceramic teeth will have to be replaced more often if you want to maintain aesthetics. Because the average lifespan of metal-ceramic teeth is 3-5 years. The reason for the short lifespan of metal ceramics is because the aesthetics are not high due to the exposed black edges and oxidized frames in the oral cavity environment.
Factors affecting the longevity of porcelain teeth >
At the same time of restoration, why do some customers still have beautiful porcelain teeth, while others have to replace them? The reason for this situation is due to many other factors that affect the longevity and duration of using porcelain teeth. Specifically as follows:
Materials for making porcelain teeth
There are 2 main types of porcelain teeth:Metal-ceramic teeth and all-ceramic teeth. Accordingly, metal-ceramic teeth have a shorter lifespan than all-ceramic teeth because they easily discolor and reveal unsightly black edges on the gums.
On average, metal-ceramic teeth last about 5-7 years and all-ceramic teeth last 10-15 years. Besides, porcelain teeth are made from high-quality, genuine imported materials, ensuring quality and hardness, and have a longer usage time of 20-25 years, even forever.
Doctor’s porcelain restoration techniques
How long it takes to replace porcelain teeth depends a lot on the doctor’s porcelain tooth restoration technique. A skilled doctor and good technique will perform tooth grinding at the correct rate, avoiding too much invasion of tooth tissue. At the same time, the doctor takes accurate tooth impressions and crafts porcelain with the right proportions to fit closely.
In case of improper porcelain restoration techniques, it leads to consequences such as loose porcelain teeth, crooked teeth, exposed roots, etc. The consequences of these conditions lead to rapid cracking of porcelain teeth and affecting oral health such as gingivitis, tooth decay, bad breath, etc. At this time, the doctor is forced to replace the porcelain crown with a new one even though it is just a restoration.
Dental health
For long-term porcelain crowns, oral health must be good and guaranteed. Cases of diseases such as tooth decay, gingivitis, periodontitis, etc. will require thorough treatment before porcelain crowns can be performed. If the disease is not detected or treated, the pathogen will continue to spread, affecting neighboring teeth. At this time, the porcelain crown cannot be kept, it must be removed to treat the disease and a new one will be installed.
Oral care and hygiene regime
Improper diet, care, and oral hygiene will quickly reduce the lifespan of porcelain teeth. Porcelain teeth are strong but not as elastic and flexible as real teeth, so if you regularly chew hard foods, they will break and crack. At this time, if not corrected, bacteria and plaque will follow the crack and attack the real tooth inside, causing disease.
Bad habits
Using porcelain teeth to bite open packaging, open bottles, beer caps, etc. will cause porcelain teeth to quickly crack. At the same time, grinding teeth while sleeping also causes porcelain teeth to wear out and crack easily.
Signs to recognize porcelain teeth that need to be replaced
Expired porcelain teeth that need to be replaced are easily recognized through the following signs:
- Porcelain teeth have black stains on the gum line. At this time, the porcelain teeth and gums are no longer tight, the exposed roots become loose. This sign is often seen when using metal porcelain teeth.
- Eating and chewing is difficult, food gets stuck easily, teeth do not chew food. The reason is that porcelain teeth wear out over time. If not cleaned thoroughly, bad breath will appear. gingivitis, periodontitis. In this case, the porcelain crown must be removed for treatment and a new porcelain tooth will be installed.
- The porcelain tooth is broken, cracked, and affects the ability to chew and aesthetically style=”font-weight: 400;”>Ceramic teeth become discolored, yellow, and dull, causing loss of aesthetics.
How to fix expired porcelain teeth?
When you notice signs of problems with porcelain teeth, you should immediately go to the dentist to have them examined and find out the cause. Based on each customer’s specific cause, the doctor will recommend a suitable treatment plan.
- Degraded porcelain teeth, poor structural aesthetics: In this case, the doctor will advise on the appropriate type of porcelain tooth and perform a new porcelain restoration on the tooth. Installing a new ceramic crown.
Notes on long-term use of porcelain teeth
To avoid wasting time and money replacing porcelain teeth many times, you need to pay attention Proper oral care:
- Clean your teeth at least twice a day, morning and evening, with a soft-bristled toothbrush and appropriate toothpaste.
- Brush your teeth properly from the inside out, from top to bottom, gently to avoid tooth abrasion and gum damage.
- Combined with the use of dental floss and water flosser after brushing teeth or after eating to clean plaque and food particles in between teeth, areas that are difficult to reach with a toothbrush.
- Salt water and mouthwash should also be used regularly after brushing teeth or after eating to increase the ability to clean and disinfect the oral cavity.
- Supplement adequate nutrients but minimize foods that are too hard, too chewy, too hot, too cold because these foods greatly affect the longevity of porcelain teeth.
- Limit foods high in sugar, with high adhesion.
- Drink plenty of filtered water to avoid dry mouth and bad breath.
- Eliminate bad habits that affect the quality of porcelain teeth such as teeth grinding, tearing packaging, opening beer, biting nails,…
- Abstain from smoking.
Above are the shares about how often do porcelain teeth need to be replaced, hoping to help you add more useful knowledge. From there, you will gain more experience in dental care and hygiene to prolong the life of porcelain teeth. If you still have concerns, please contact My Auris dentistry immediately for more detailed advice and answers.
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