What is Dental Bridge?

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1 What Are the Advantages of Dental Bridge?

1.1 What Types of Dental Bridges Are Available?

1.1.1 What Is the Process for Getting a Dental Bridge?

Dental bridges consist of having a duty to be a bridge between gaps created by missing teeth. Keep in mind that natural teeth or dental implants support dental bridges. Dental bridges are false teeth between the real ones. These false teeth are called ‘’pontics’’ and can be made from any type of metal such as alloys, porcelain, gold, silver, or a combination of these materials.

What Are the Advantages of Dental Bridge?

Dental bridges will help you maintain the shape of your face aesthetically and naturally.

Restore the ability to chew thoroughly and speak clearly. This way, by applying pressure when chewing food and distributing properly while replacing the missing tooth.

Dental bridges will help to keep your teeth in line so that they will not drift out of their position.

What Types of Dental Bridges Are Available?

Traditional bridges: Traditional bridges are a dental process that involves a crown for the tooth or implant. Traditional bridges are the most common type of bridge used and are usually made from porcelain fused to ceramics or metal.

Cantilever bridges: Your dentist may utilize this type of bridge when the patient has adjacent teeth on only 1 side of the missing tooth. This is no longer popular and your dentist may not recommend it at the back of the mouth where it can put too much force on other teeth and damage them.

Maryland bonded bridges: In other words, Maryland Bridge consists of porcelain or porcelain that is fused to metal.

What Is the Process for Getting a Dental Bridge?

The very first step to the dentist’s office, be ready to answer questions about your medical history. Then, for further examination, your dentist will take the graph of your mouth. Your dentist will be explaining the procedure. If you are advised that you will need a dental bridge the abutment teeth are set for use. Then, impressions of teeth are made for the permanent ones. During that time you will receive a temporary bridge to wear.

During the second visit, you will receive your permanent ones. Before taking its final form your dentist will check and adjust the new porcelain or metal bridge, accordingly, to achieve the most proper fit. To check the metal framework to see if it fits and looks natural your dentist may require multiple visits. This will be depending on each patient’s case.