What Is a Dental Bridge?

Watch this video to learn more about dental bridges and how they serve as a nonsurgical option for replacing individual missing teeth.

If you have two teeth on either side, and they’re of strong quality and the bone is good, we could do a bridge. Basically, a bridge involves crowning teeth on both sides, or capping, and putting teeth in the middle. Kind of like a regular bridge from one side to the other. And then a crown as you basically shape the teeth, and that’s a great procedure—the bridgework—because you can have it done within three weeks.

You do it, you take an impression, and two weeks later, we get back to the lab, we put it in, and we make sure it looks gorgeous. We make sure it’s fitting at the gum, make sure it’s fitting the teeth right, and then bang, you got something within a short period of time without a surgical procedure, and you can have a bridge. The good thing about bridges is bridges have been around as long as I’ve been a dentist, so way before me. And so it’s a procedure that’s been done time and time again.

And with bridge work, as with any work, if you take care of it, it can last a long time, a lifetime.

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