Some dental crowns are made entirely of metal. The classic metal dental crown is one made of gold, or more precisely a gold alloy. Over the decades a variety of different metal alloys have been used in making dental crowns. Some of these metals are silver in color rather than yellow like gold. As with all crowns these provide a great restructuring alternative for your dental treatment, although not as popular at they once were.

The gold crown is most frequently cast from jewelry grade gold, however it may be cast from other alloys as well.  There are several categories of metal including high noble, noble and base metal alloys.

Gold has one other important quality, it is hypo-allergenic, so are suitable for those patients that have particular allergic sensitivities, these crowns can be full gold crowns or porcelain covered gold. More popularly these days people are opting for Zirconium Crowns because of their aesthetic qualities.