Crown and bridge
If you are faced with tooth loss, crown and bridge treatment may be the best option for you. A bridge is a custom-made device anchored to neighboring natural teeth, which replaced one or more missing teeth; When a lost tooth is replaced with bridgework, the teeth on either side of the missing one are prepared as crowns to hold the bridge in place.
Bridges, sometimes referred to as a fixed partial denture, look natural and literally bridge the gap where one or more teeth may have been. Fixed bridges appear and function similar to natural teeth and remain in the mouth at all times. They can only be removed by your dentist.
Benefit of Crown and Bridge Treatment
- Restores lost teeth and supports remaining teeth
- Restores and maintains your natural bite
- Improves your speech, smile and chewing ability
- Helps prevent further dental decay and gum disease
- Prevents tilting and shifting of adjacent teeth
Crowns
A crown, sometimes referred to as a “cap”, is an artificial covering cemented over an existing tooth that has been specially prepared for you (somewhat like a thimble over your finger).
Crowns help to strengthen and restore or improve the appearance of your natural teeth. In addition to strengthening a tooth to accommodate the attachment of a bridge, crowns serve many functions. One of the most common is to support the tooth when there is no longer sufficient tooth structure left to place a filling.
Crowns and bridges are most often made of superior materials such as semi-precious or precious metals, porcelain or a combination of metal fused to porcelain.
