3M ESPE Stainless Steel Crowns are designed to provide long-term coverage of primary molar teeth and long-term provisional coverage of permanent molar teeth.
Different designs of prefabricated metal crowns have been offered to the dental profession over the years ranging from straight sided “bucket” crowns to the anatomically shaped 3M ESPE stainless steel crowns available today.
The cervical areas of primary molars are narrower than their permanent counterparts, but the most bulbous part of the crown is at the cervical third.
It is beneath this bulbous area at the gingival margin where the stainless steel crown obtains its retention.
This real case on a 3 year-old patient (sedated) shows step-by-step how simple this procedure is.
