A quick overview of a Crown seat appointment at Heidi Sprowls DDS

At your crown seat appointment, you can expect us to remove your temporary crown, 90% of patients do not need local for this, if you think you need to be numb let us know. After the temporary is off, we will clean any cement up, place the final crown, we may need make adjustments to the bite and/or contacts (outside of the mouth), we will take an x-ray to confirm the crown fit. If the fit, bite, and contacts look good, we will cement the crown. With tooth colored crowns we will use a light to set the cement up immediately, with gold crowns the cement takes about 30 minutes to set up.

Time expected for the appointment:

Seat One crown: 45 min - 1 hour

Seat Two crowns: 1 hour - 1 1/2 hours

Seat Multiple Crowns: Call office for a more accurate timeframe

What to expect after we seat a Crown:

Numbness: In the rare case you needed local, it may take a couples hours to wear off. Try not to eat while numb.

Irritated Gums: If your gums are irritated, swish salt water rinse (8 oz. of warm water with a teaspoon of salt).

Sensitivity: You may experience some temporary sensitivity to pressure and hot and cold foods and drinks, but this should be quick sensitivity.

Gold crown: Give 30 minutes before eating or drinking anything

Things to let us know about:

Does your bite feel off? We may ask you to come in to check the crowns alignment and make adjustments if needed.

Pain waking you up or coming out of the blue? Let us know this is not normal.

Key steps during a seat crown appointment:

Our team will remove temporary.

We will clean up temporary cement.

Check bite and contacts of final crown.

Take an x-ray of final crown.

Cement final crown (if everything looks sealed on x-ray).