This form of Southampton dental restoration bridges the gap or gaps in the patient’s mouth. Good candidates for dental implants are people who are missing a tooth or multiple teeth, provided they have a natural tooth or dental implants on both sides of the gap.
What is a dental bridge?
A dental bridge is a permanent restoration for replacing missing teeth. It consists of one or two pillars like dental crowns, placed on a tooth or implant on either side of the missing tooth, and a pontic in between.
Dental bridges Southampton can be used to replace lost teeth and re-adjust the patient’s bite to distribute forces while chewing correctly, which significantly facilitates daily functioning and ensures excellent comfort. The indication for such restoration is the occurrence of interdental spaces, i.e., the loss of one, two, or even three teeth. The patient’s teeth or implants must surround the gap.
The prerequisite is also the pillar teeth decay treatment, the proper preparation and filing of the canals, and the absence of inflammatory lesions in the area of the tooth root apex in the case of endodontically treated teeth. Each case must be evaluated individually by a dentist who checks whether the conditions in the oral cavity are favorable enough for cementing the dental bridge.
What is the procedure for a dental bridge in Southampton?
The Southampton dental bridge procedure is preceded by a visit to our dentist, who assesses whether the gaps in teeth are suitable for such reconstruction and whether the pillar teeth are not damaged by grinding. Sometimes, the pillars may need to be reinforced with crown-root inlays. The following steps of a dental bridge are intended to:
- Take impressions, from which the technician makes approximate plaster models.
- Grind the teeth crowns constituting the pillars surrounding the gap and take another impression.
- Make a temporary dental bridge of composite material reinforced with glass fiber.
- Take impressions of the bridge construction in the prosthetic laboratory.
- Measure the bridge made by the technicians and choose the right color of artificial teeth. The bridge accepted by the patient is then prepared in the prosthetic laboratory in its final form.
- Cement of the dental bridge and periodic control.
The procedure for getting a traditional dental bridge usually takes at least 2-3 weeks.
What are the benefits of dental bridges?
The major advantages of dental bridges Southampton include:
- replace lost teeth,
- re-adjust the patient’s bite to distribute forces while chewing correctly, which significantly increases functionality and patient comfort,
- durability and strength,
- improved aesthetics,
- permanently fixed,
- can be used to strengthen a damaged tooth.
Dental bridges are certainly a more comfortable solution for patients than removable dentures, which most of them perceive as a foreign body in the mouth.