When you have several missing teeth that are all in a line, you can start to notice that your other teeth start to shift around your mouth. This is a common problem, and it has a simple solution: having what is called a ‘bridge’, or a dental bridge, which is a series of false teeth that are connected together and slot into the gap that you have in your mouth. False teeth may not sound very appetising, but in fact dental technology has completely transformed the way that they work, and today you will find that they are made of porcelain, and in many cases cannot be told apart from natural teeth because they are made to look purposefully like your other teeth.
The best way to have a bridge fitted is to have a porcelain fixed bridge. Some bridges can be removed, and although this may seem like a good idea, it actually leads to food getting trapped within it and a huge amount of rubbing and chafing on your gum line. The alternative, the porcelain fixed bridge, means that your expert dentist – such as someone from Brighton Dental San Diego – will be able to delicately and carefully created a fixed bridge that perfectly fits your mouth, and then glue it into place with special medical glue. Then you won’t have your porcelain fixed bridge moving around your mouth and being uncomfortable.
Many porcelain fixed bridges can be fitted into a patient’s mouth with just two dentist visits: one to establish exactly what is required by taking a mold of your mouth, and a second for the dental bridge to be fitted. As long as you take good care of it and follow your dentist’s instructions, then your dental bridge should last years – and sometimes you may find that you completely forget that it is in your mouth at all!
Read more about porcelain bridges: http://sandiegodentist.org/cosmetic-dentistry/porcelain-fixed-bridges/
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