A dental bridge can be needed to enable the replacement of missing teeth or to secure another type of appliance in the mouth.
A dental bridge is used to facilitate remedial work in a dental patient in a comfortable and cost-effective manner. The appliance is intended to be “permanent,” although permanent devices for the mouth including natural teeth generally have a finite lifespan that often does not equal the modern definition of permanent.
Dental bridges are used in areas where a stable platform is needed to secure dental work in place in an individual mouth.
A dental bridge is a prosthetic device affixed to a dental patient’s other, healthy teeth to either replace teeth or in some cases to provide a remedial structure to attach other prosthetic devices to to complete needed dental care. Dental bridges are used to enable dental work to be performed and attached to the mouth when existing teeth are not in appropriate condition to fasten necessary appliances where they are needed.
A dental bridge can be used to aid in the replacement of missing teeth after the original permanent teeth are no longer able to be used by the patient.
The common use of dental bridges is to aid in replacing missing teeth, whether the teeth are missing as a result of an injury, accident, or dental disease. Dental bridges are often used to replace actual missing teeth for a patient after a determination has been made that the patient’s original teeth are no longer suitable to remain in the mouth in their existing condition. Rather than leaving the patient with a gap which would impair both chewing and appearance, a bridge is constructed after an impression is made of the space needing to be filled. If possible, an impression is also made of the existing teeth before they are removed to match the bridgework to the missing teeth.
Bridge work can usually be performed in the regular dental office by a standard dentist.
This work can normally be performed at a regular family dentist’s office during a regular office visit. Usually, multiple visits are needed for the bridgework to be completed to ensure a proper fit and match to surrounding teeth. Because cosmetic considerations enter into placing a bridge in a patient’s mouth, care is taken with the appearance of the appliance and its ability to appear natural in the patient's mouth.
If the number of replacement teeth needed is too great, more than one bridge may be required, and if the missing teeth are in the same area, there may not be sufficient healthy teeth to attach the bridge onto.
A bridge is exactly what is described: a placement between teeth to hold replacement teeth that “bridges” a gap between healthy teeth. A bridge is used in lieu of supplying a denture appliance which provides missing teeth but does not have a permanent attachment to the surrounding teeth and must be removed and cleaned outside of the mouth.
Bridges can be made from different compounds after an impression of the area to be covered is made and the measurements have been verified.
Usually, a bridge is fashioned by an experienced dental lab following the prep work and measurements done in the treating dentist’s office. After the bridge is made by the lab, the patient returns to the treating dentist to have the bridge “permanently” placed in the patient’s mouth.
The cost of bridge work depends on the amount of time required to place the bridge and prepare the mouth to receive the dental bridge.
Dentists usually have a regular price for performing bridge work that can be used by the patient to estimate costs and any dental insurance companies to determine coverage.
A dental bridge is a curative type of prosthetic used strategically to make up for missing teeth by providing a new structure for the mouth which holds and anchors the new teeth in the patient’s head on a permanent basis.
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