crown
- noun
- /kraʊn/
- Specialized
- I had a new crown, three root canals... ...and Jason has a sore throat.
- tooth-supported crown
- implant-supported crown
- ceramic crown
Examples
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Prep for his anterior crown, would you, please?
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I'm getting the crown replaced On my number 1 5 molar.
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The real problems with this crown, it's, it's not going back into place.
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Most people assume the crown must be very painful to wear, but it's quite comfortable.
Fiction book (1996) -
I had to get a crown for the stub.
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Vince, I'd really like to help you out, but I have two impacted molars and a gold crown out there.
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This is our holodeck, where I do my work: Fillings, crowns, dentures, things like that.
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After my tooth broke, the dentist fitted a crown to restore its shape.
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She was relieved when the new crown was a perfect fit for her molar.
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The temporary crown helped me until I could get a permanent one.
Synonyms
An artificial cover placed over a damaged or weak tooth
A device used to fix damaged teeth and replace missing teeth, like braces or dentures
An artificial cap placed over a broken or decayed tooth
A hard cap placed over a broken or decayed tooth to make it look and work like a real tooth
Idioms
Compounds
- US
A title given to a horse that wins the Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes in the same year
- Jargon
In baseball, a player who leads the league in batting average, runs batted in, and home runs in one season
- NSFW
A ring of thorn branches put on Jesus' head to mock and hurt him before his death on the cross
- Archaic
A place ruled directly by the British king or queen, usually through a governor they choose
- Specialized
A fast forest fire that moves through the tops of trees, often moving ahead of the fire on the ground
- Specialized
A type of glass lens makers use that bends light little and keeps colours from separating
- Archaic
Old window glass you get by blowing hot glass into a round disk and spinning it flat
A tall plant with a ring of leaves at the top of its stem and bright bell-shaped orange flowers
- Specialized
A plant with large reddish-purple trumpet-shaped flowers and poisonous seeds that grows in fields and roadsides
- Specialized
A lens made from a kind of clear glass that gives sharp images with little color blur
- Specialized
A plant with pink and white flowers that spreads to cover soil and prevent erosion
- Specialized
A fungal disease of alfalfa that causes white growths at the base of the stem
An annual plant with yellow flowers that grows in dry parts of the southwestern United States and Mexico
- Archaic
A hard cap placed over a broken or decayed tooth to make it look and work like a real tooth
- Specialized
Clear glass used in camera lenses that bends light less and keeps colours from separating
- Jargon
A baseball season when a player leads the league in batting average, home runs and runs batted in
How Restorative
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crown for a dental cover comes from the idea of a small 'head' covering and the old word corona, meaning a 'garland' worn on the head. So to give a tooth a crown is to put a protective cover over its top.