Dental Crowns in Frisco, TX
A crown covers a tooth that can no longer protect itself. Ours are made in a dental laboratory, which means two visits and a temporary in between.
Dental crown procedure: how a crown is made here
Two appointments, usually two to three weeks apart, with a temporary crown in between.
How we decide if you need a crown
We show you the tooth on the chairside monitor and explain what we are seeing — a cracked cusp, a filling wider than the tooth around it, a tooth that has had root canal treatment. If it does not need a crown, we will say so.
Preparing the tooth
The tooth is numbed and reduced by roughly the thickness of the crown that will cover it. Any old filling material and decay underneath comes out at this stage, and occasionally what is found underneath changes the plan — we will stop and tell you before continuing.
A digital scan
Scanned with the iTero, no impression tray needed, which for anyone with a gag reflex is the single best thing about modern dentistry. The scan goes to the laboratory electronically the same day.
A temporary crown
Made and fitted before you leave. It looks reasonable and works for normal eating, but it is cemented with a deliberately weak cement so it can be removed. Avoid anything very sticky, and call us if it comes off. Leave the gluing to us.
The laboratory makes your crown
A technician builds and characterises the crown, matching it to your other teeth. This is why it takes two to three weeks. Crowns are not milled in the office in a single visit here.
Fitting your crown
The temporary comes off, the fit and the bite and the shade are checked, and only when all three are right is it cemented. If something is not right, it goes back — a crown you will live with for a decade is worth a second appointment.
What to know before getting a dental crown
Why two visits, and what that costs you
Some practices mill crowns in the office in one appointment. This practice does not — ours are made in a dental laboratory by a technician. The honest trade is convenience: you will wear a temporary for two to three weeks and come back a second time. What you get for it is a crown built and finished by hand, not shaped by a mill in an hour. We are telling you this before you book, not after, because if a single-visit crown is what you want, you should know we are not the practice for that.
When a tooth needs a crown
A crown is not an upgrade to a filling; it does a different job. A filling replaces missing tooth. A crown wraps and holds together what is left. It becomes the right answer when the remaining walls of the tooth are too thin to survive biting force. Examples are a very large old restoration, a cracked cusp, or a tooth that has had root canal treatment and lost its internal blood supply. Short of that, a filling is less destructive and less expensive, and we would rather do that.
Filling or crown?
Dental Crowns near Frisco, Prosper and Plano
Dental crowns are planned and fitted in our office at 8175 Custer Rd, Suite A110, Frisco, TX 75035. We are open Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 9 AM to 6 PM and Saturday from 9 AM to 3 PM. Wednesday and Sunday we are closed, though the phone is still answered on Wednesday. Patients come from Frisco and from Prosper, Plano, Little Elm, Allen, Celina and McKinney. Call (469) 262-2111 to book a visit.
Call (469) 262-2111Examples of crowns made at our Frisco office
Before 
After - Came in with
- The two upper front teeth already carried large multi-surface fillings, with gum recession at both.
- What we did
- A crown on each of the two front teeth.
Every case on this page was treated in this office, by our own doctors. These are photographs of our own patients, published with their permission. They are close-up photographs of teeth — not portraits of faces — so no patient can be identified from them, which is exactly why patients were willing to let us show them.
What are dental crowns made of?
The material is chosen for where the tooth sits and how hard you bite — not for a price list.
| Feature | Zirconia | Porcelain-fused | Gold and metal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Appearance | Very good, tooth-like | Good, can show a dark edge in time | Obviously metal |
| Strength | Very strong | Strong | Extremely strong |
| Best for | Most teeth, front and back | Where cost matters | Heavy grinders, back teeth |
| Tooth removed | Moderate | Moderate | Least of the three |
Before you agree to a crown anywhere
Ask to see the tooth. A good practice will already be showing it to you on the screen. It will point at the specific thing, such as the crack, the thin wall or the width of the old filling, that makes a crown the right answer.
If that specific reason isn’t shown to you, a second opinion is reasonable. Take your estimate and your X-rays with you; you are entitled to both.
Related pages: root canal treatment, filling or crown and dental bridges.
Time in the chair for a crown.
The scale runs to five hours — the same scale on every page, so the bars are comparable across the whole site.
Dental crown cost in Frisco: what to expect.
If a crown is quoted and you want a second opinion, take the estimate and get one. We welcome it.
You get the figure in writing before treatment starts. We accept all major PPO plans and file the claim for you, our membership plan takes a percentage off treatment, and CareCredit financing is available.
How plans usually cover a crown.
Major — Class III on most plans
- What plans pay
- Commonly around 50% once the deductible is met, which means a crown is the kind of treatment where the plan covers about half and the annual maximum decides the rest.
- Deductible
- Usually applies, and for major work it is rarely waived.
What catches people out
- Waiting periods. Six or twelve months of holding the policy before major work is covered is common, and it catches people who have just changed employer.
- The annual maximum. At around 50%, one major procedure can consume most of a $1,000 to $2,000 benefit by itself — which is why the order treatment is done in matters.
- Frequency limits by tooth. "Once every five years" or "once every seven years" is standard wording, and it counts from the date of the last one wherever it was done.
- Downgrades on materials. Some plans pay toward the least expensive option they consider adequate and leave you the difference — a metal crown rate applied to a porcelain one, for instance.
- Replacement frequency. A crown is commonly covered once every five to seven years per tooth, counted from the last one wherever it was placed.
These are how dental plans usually classify this treatment — not a statement about your own plan. Yours is the one that governs, plans differ more than people expect, and the only reliable answer comes from reading your specific benefits, which we always do ahead of treatment and give you in writing.
And what changes out-of-network
A dentist who is in-network has signed a contract fixing what may be charged for each procedure and cannot bill you the difference. One who is out-of-network has signed nothing, so the full fee stands.
So the first difference is the price itself — the same treatment is simply allowed to cost more out-of-network, before anyone's plan is considered.
What you personally pay out of that depends on your own deductible and coinsurance, which is why there is no percentage here: it is not a property of the treatment, it is a property of your plan, and we verify yours before you commit. But two things follow for everybody. Your share is a share of a bigger number. And your annual maximum is spent by what the plan pays toward that bigger number, so the same treatment eats more of your benefit out-of-network.
An illustration, not a quote. These are the allowed fees for a crown — taken from our own contracted schedules. An allowed fee is what the contract permits to be charged, in network and out. It is not what you pay: your deductible and your coinsurance decide that, and we work yours out in writing before you commit to anything.
Check the going rate yourself
FAIR Health's dental cost lookup is free, needs no account, and is not ours — it reports what a procedure typically costs in your area. It does not know your plan, so treat it as a ballpark figure — not a final answer.
Ask us for the number first
We verify your specific plan before your appointment and give you a written estimate: what the plan is expected to pay, and what you pay. If we get it wrong we tell you why.
Bring an Explanation of Benefits
Treated somewhere else? Your EOB shows exactly what the plan paid and what it counted against your maximum. Bring one in and we will read it with you — whether or not you become a patient here.
None of this says out-of-network dentists are worse dentists. Plenty are excellent, plenty are out-of-network for sound reasons, and people choose a dentist for who that person is. What we think you are owed is the information, so that whatever you choose, you chose it knowingly. The whole thing, explained properly, or call (469) 262-2111 and ask.
How long does a dental crown take? Three weeks in practice
- Visit onePrepare, scan, temporary crown
About ninety minutes. You leave with a working temporary crown.
- Two to three weeksThe laboratory builds your crown
Avoid very sticky food on that side. Pull the floss out sideways so you do not lift the temporary off.
- Visit twoFit and cement
About forty-five minutes, and usually no injection needed unless you would prefer one.
- The first weekSettling in after the fit
Mild sensitivity and awareness of the new shape are normal. If your bite feels off after a few days, call — it is a quick adjustment.
Booking dental crowns in Frisco
If a temporary crown comes off, keep it and call us. Do not glue it back with anything from a pharmacy — a tooth left uncovered can move enough in a few days that the real crown no longer fits.
- Hours
- Weekdays 9–6
Saturdays 9–3 - Languages
- English, Telugu, Hindi, Urdu
Arabic with Saba, our hygienist, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays
Vietnamese with Anh, our hygienist, Saturdays
Cantonese and Mandarin with Dr. Louie, our periodontist, on his scheduled days, by internal referral
Dental Crowns FAQs in Frisco, TX
Grouped so you can go straight to the one you came for.
Dental Crowns — common questions
What is a dental crown?
How long does a dental crown last?
Do you make crowns in one visit?
Does getting a crown hurt?
Will the tooth need a root canal too?
What if my temporary crown comes off?
Which material is best?
Is it too late to get a crown?
How much does a crown cost in Texas?
Where can I get a dental crown near me in Frisco?
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