What do dental bridges do?
They replace missing teeth. They consist of one or more porcelain teeth, with an arrangement to hold them in place. They can be anchored three different ways, which is what differentiates the three different types of bridges. What are the three types of dental bridges? • A traditional bridge – anchored to the two neighboring teeth by means of crowns on those teeth, with attachments from the crowns to the artificial tooth or teeth. • A Cantilever bridge – done the same way, but used when there is no neighboring tooth on one side. The bridge is attached to crowns on two teeth on the same side, like a cantilevered balcony. • A Northern Virginia bonded bridge – anchored by metal framework that has a piece on each side bonded to the two neighboring teeth. There’s a fourth way to anchor a bridge, and that is by a dental implant. This way is the best, since it requires no metal framework, and no crowns on otherwise healthy teeth. A dental implant is an artificial tooth root, placed in the jaw
