Dental bridges can be made of solid porcelain or metal-based porcelain.
Advantages of Dental Bridges
- Bridges can restore a smile.
- Dental bridges restore your ability to chew and speak properly by replacing the missing space in your teeth.
- Dental bridges prevent the teeth from moving towards the space in front or in the opposite jaw.
- Dental bridges help to distribute the bite forces correctly.
Types of Dental Bridges
- Traditional bridges require the tooth or implant to provide support on both sides of the missing tooth and a body in between. Traditional bridges are the most commonly used type of bridge and are made of metal or porcelain.
- Maryland bridges; usually consist of acrylic teeth fitted with a metal infrastructure. However, Maryland all-porcelain bridges (zirconium, e-max) are used in our digital dentistry clinic.
- Cantilever bridges are used when the missing tooth or teeth only have adjacent teeth on one side. Cantilever bridges are generally not fabricated due to the load pressure on existing supporting threads. In cases where cavities are missing without supporting teeth on both sides, dental implants or partial dentures are alternative treatment options.
Various Materials from which Dental Bridges can be made;
- Porcelain crowns fused with metal alloy (PFM)
- All-porcelain bridge systems: IPS Empress-eMax crown
- All-porcelain bridge systems: Zirconia crowns
- All-porcelain bridge systems: Procera crowns
Prosthetic dentistry treats dental cavities with applications such as crowns, bridges and dentures. The teeth and intraoral tissue lost over time are regained through prosthetic treatment. This restores aesthetics and function.
- Total dentures
- Precision attachment dentures
- Hook dentures
- Metal-supported crowns
It includes traditional prosthetic approaches such as.
