Types of Dental Surgery

Dental Bridges

Dental Bridge treatment is a procedure for cosmetic dental cure in which a modified false tooth is implanted in place of a missing tooth in order to shape your teeth for an attractive smile. Dental bridges fill the spaces where teeth are missing. Procedure of dental bridges is for those who have lost natural teeth due to germ or virus and tooth decays that not only affects on their smile but it also create difficulties in chewing, eating and speaking clearly. If there is not additional support then some facial muscles could sag, resulting in an older appearance of mouth.

Mainly, there are three kinds of dental bridges-fixed bridge, resin bonded bridge and cantilever bridge. In fixed bridge, false tooth is attached to the crowns, which performs like two walls, at a place where a tooth is missing. It is normally used to replace one or more missing teeth. Resin bonded bridge is used for front teeth, where false tooth is attached to the adjacent teeth with the help of a metal band and resin. This is performed when adjacent teeth are in good shape. It is comparatively less expensive as compared to the other bridges technique. In cantilever bridge, artificial teeth are implanted to fill in the gap where there are more than one tooth is missing. It is used when teeth are only on one side of the unfilled space.

Mild anesthesia is performed during the procedure. Dentist removes part of the teeth on both sides of the missing teeth to make fine-tuning for the crown. The dentist takes an impression of the teeth. Based on the impressions, bridges, artificial teeth and crowns are made. Temporary bridge is placed in place of the missing teeth to protect the teeth and gums from any infection till the provisional bridges are being made. In the next round, dentist takes away the temporary bridges and installs the stable ones over the surrounding teeth. As an ultimate consequence radiant natural white teeth appears that allows you a full mouth smile.

Patient may experience pain and uncomfortable for a few weeks but it will be diminish automatically. Some patient can find an increase in saliva production but these problems lessens over time. Ultimate result occurs when everything is healed and it takes about 7-8 weeks. It is recommended that you must make multiple visits to your dentist to check the fit of the metal framework and bite.