A bridge is a fixed replacement for a missing tooth or several teeth. The artificial tooth is anchored to your own teeth on either side, or sometimes just on one side. To make a strong and long-lasting bridge and to ensure alignment, the replacement teeth are sometimes attached to crowns which are fitted to the adjacent teeth.
There are 2 broad groups of bridges:
Resin retained
This is also known as a ‘sticky bridge’. They generally do not involve shaping of the surround teeth. A prosthetic tooth with a metal wing attached to it is bonded onto the tooth next door to fill the space.
Conventional
This involves reshaping the teeth either side of the missing tooth and having a bridge fitted over them all. The introduction of dental implants means that traditional bridges are much less popular owing to the shaping of the surrounding teeth to support them.
Please note, the advice outlined below is not a substitute to seeing a dentist and will not provide you with a long term solution, so please make an appointment to see one of the team if you have not already done so.
In order to have fixed teeth you’d either be looking at a bridge or a dental implant.
Both options have their benefits. The advantage of an implant is that is does not affect the surround teeth, whereas a bridge would involve attaching the missing tooth to the surround teeth.
Bridges are a good alternative to implants – as long as they can be carried out predictably for you.
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