Dental News - NuSmile crowns: a ‘gold standard’ for pediatric patients

Kristine Colker and Sierra Rendon, DTA

Tue. 26 June 2012

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A restorative solution for pediatric patients with early childhood caries, NuSmile crowns offer an esthetic alternative to traditional stainless-steel crowns. “Our company is dedicated to beautiful, healthy smiles for all children. NuSmile anterior and posterior crowns are anatomically correct, stainless-steel crowns with the most natural-looking, tooth-colored facing available,” said NuSmile CEO and President Diane Johnson Krueger.

In 1991, NuSmile joined the effort to end the esthetics-versus-durability dilemma, introducing its proprietary approach to manufacturing coated stainless-steel crowns.

Dr. Michael Ignelzi Jr. has lauded the use of NuSmile crowns.

“I have used virtually all of the resin-faced stainless-steel crowns on the market and use NuSmile crowns because they look great and are durable,” he said. “I have literally placed hundreds of NuSmile crowns and can count on one hand the times that resin has been lost from a NuSmile crown.”

Dentists can quickly learn the NuSmile technique for properly fitting crowns.

“They are relatively easy to use, and they last the life of the tooth,” Ignelzi said. “I mainly use the NuSmile crowns to restore maxillary incisors. However I’ll opt for composite resin when the teeth are overcrowded.

“I have seen the changes in a little person’s life when rotten, decayed maxillary incisors are transformed by NuSmile crowns into beautiful, white, lifelike teeth. Many of my patients who have been restored with NuSmile crowns are very proud of their ‘new’ teeth.”

“NuSmile crowns are the gold standard when restoring maxillary incisors affected by early childhood caries,” he said.

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