DENTAL BRIDGES

A bridge may be used to replace missing teeth, help maintain the shape of your face, and alleviate stress on your bite. They replace the holes in your smile!

A bridge replaces missing teeth with artificial teeth, looks great, and literally bridges the gap where one or more teeth may have been. Your bridge can be made from gold, alloys, porcelain, or a combination of these materials and is bonded onto surrounding teeth for support.

The success of any bridge depends on its foundation — the other teeth, gums, or bone to which it is attached. Therefore, it’s very important to keep your existing teeth, gums, and jaw healthy and strong

Having missing teeth impairs eating, speaking and grinning, and leaving a gap for too long can start to change the shape of your face. It can also cause other teeth to drift out of position, which could lead to cavities, serious gum diseases, impedes chewing efficiency and nutrition, and jaw joint disorders.

Available Bridge Options

This depends on your abutment teeth — the teeth on either side of the gap.

Traditional: Utilized when there are two strong abutment teeth on either side of the gap.
Implant: If your abutment teeth are weak or damaged, or the gap is too large, we’ll replace them with dental implants and attach a bridge to those instead.
Bonded: This is primarily for front teeth. We cement the bridge to the abutments so the hardware is invisible.

How Dental Bridges Are Built

We take an impression of the gap, the abutments and the surrounding area to use when creating your bridge in the lab.

We decide on the kind of bridge you need and proceed accordingly; either by shaping the abutments or installing the implants.

We fit you with a temporary bridge while your permanent bridge is being built.

You come back when your permanent bridge is ready and we cement it into place.

Maintaining your Dental Bridges

Like natural teeth, bridges are never removed, and they should be brushed and flossed every day. We’ll teach you how to care for your bridge so you can keep eating, speaking, smiling and looking your best for years to come. Dental bridges last an average of ten years but could last a lifetime if you maintain good oral care and come in for regular check-ups.