A dental bridge is a fixed aesthetic option to replace any missing teeth that you may have. Using the surrounding teeth, we can use the power of the most up to date adhesives to hold the bridge in place.

Conventional bridges are a crown with an added tooth to it to replace the missing tooth. These are best employed when the tooth next door has an existing crown, or has a big filling in it that would benefit from covering. 

Adhesive bridges or “Maryland” bridges use a small wing that sticks to the tooth either side, this is cemented on with strong dental cement. No preparation to either tooth is required making this type of bridge very conservative. These work well at the front of the mouth and are commonly employed during implant treatment.

When placing an implant, we sometimes need to wait for bone to remodel into its new position. A bridge works as a fantastic space holder while we wait for an implant to be placed and works by sticking to the back of the teeth either side via little wings that are present on the side of the replacement tooth.

Come in and ask us more about how a bridge could work for you!