Dental Bridges
Replacement of a missing teeth. Bridges are placed when there are one or more teeth missing and the objective is to stabilize the bite, prevent the adjacent teeth from tilting, and the opposing teeth from dropping down into the space that has been lost. When there is no adjacent tooth on one side, we may do a cantilever bridge, which is supported by only one tooth. There are a few different types of bridges including the Maryland Bridge, which can be placed conservatively in the areas that have low torque and two teeth that have never been touched. Fixed bridges are made to replace missing teeth. It is very important that already one missing tooth can cause severe problems (the contrapuntal system collides, power effects change, the tooth opposite to the missing tooth is rising, etc.) so it should be replaced. In this case the teeth around the missing one are leaning toward each other, the body itself tries to solve the problem, which does not have a result. So, the later the bridge is made, the more difficult the solution will be. If more teeth missing we can place implant to fix the bridge.