The main difference between inlays and crowns includes the production method, indications and other aspects.
1. Production method: inlay is a kind of embedded in the base of the tooth crown inside a kind of restorations, need to prepare for the defective place of the tooth, grinding the tooth tissue is less, after the completion of the production of special adhesive bonding agent, restore the shape of the tooth and the neighboring relationship. Crowns are a kind of restorations that are wrapped around the outside of the tooth after all the preparations are made on the shape of the tooth.
2. Indications: inlays are mainly used for teeth with large defects, or neighboring surface defects, with the traditional filling method is easy to fall out of the case; crowns are generally used for root canal treatment of the teeth, to prevent the dead pulp of the tooth is fragile, to prevent easy to cleave to restore the shape and function of the tooth and the restoration of the restorations made.
Inlays and crowns need to be selected under the guidance of the doctor to suit their own restorations.