Services: Prosthodontics: Crowns and Bridges

Crowns and Bridges

A dental bridge is a dental appliance that replaces one or more natural missing teeth, thereby bridging the space between two teeth. A dental bridge is a false tooth which is fused between two porcelain crowns to fill in the area left by a missing tooth. The two crowns holding it in place are attached onto your teeth on each side of the false tooth.

• Crowns and Bridges Between Natural Teeth
• Crowns and Bridges on Dental Implants

All-Ceramic Crowns/Bridges Restorations (Full Porcelain)

Dental crowns and bridges may be done in replacing missing gaps between healthy natural teeth. In this case, the adjacent teeth to the missing gaps are preped and a bridge fitted as a new prosthetics. With new material advancements, crowns and bridges can now be All Ceramic relative to being Porcelain-fused-to-Metal-Alloy Crowns (PFM Crowns). Advantages of having all ceramic crowns and porcelain bridges include:

1. Natural appearance
2. Improved translucency & strength
3. Eliminate dark/black metal hair line near gum margins

Before	After

Before	After

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Implant-Supported Crowns/Bridges Restorations

If there are several missing gaps and there is no healthy adjacent natural supporting, dental implants may be placed in holding a bridge in place. The dental implants act as new tooth roots with a bridge placed on the implants. Advantages of implant supported bridges include

1. Strong & stable (tightly fixed)
2. No more caries
3. Save adjacent teeth
4. Correct an altered bite
5. Improve your chewing ability and speech
6. Safeguard your appearance by preventing the collapse of your facial features that can cause premature wrinkles and age lines

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