Crowns & Bridges
What Are Dental Crowns & Tooth Bridges?
Dental Crowns and bridges are prosthetic appliances that are used to restore missing and damaged teeth. Unlike Dentures, they cannot be remove and remain fixed and they can only be removed by a Dentist. Missing teeth result in a bad bite when you chew food. Bridges can be used to overcome this problem of bad bites caused by missing teeth.
A bridge or a dental prosthesis is made to accommodate the missing tooth with an artificial tooth and the surrounding two teeth on either side of the missing tooth are reshaped and fitted with crowns to align with the restoration.
If you are having a missing tooth, then a bridge is one of the best ways to restore the normal function of the teeth.
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How do Dental Crowns Work?
A Crown can be used for the following:
- Root Canal Treatments:After root canal procedure, tooth makes brittle as the nutrition provider pulp is removed. Thus it breaks easily with the occlusal forces. To prevent this fixation of dental crowns is done which provides strength to teeth.
- Tooth Implants:A dental implant acts like root part of natural teeth upon which a dental crown is placed which acts as crown part of natural teeth that is normally visible.
- Smile Designing: Now a days, esthetics has gained immense attention. Smile is one of the important part of esthetics. With the help of recent advances, dental crowns are used to correct and enhance the smile
Advantages of using a dental crown
Be it Root Canal Treatments or Tooth Implants or smile designing, dental crowns offer many benefits to your damaged or missing teeth. They are used for
- Strength
- Tooth protection
- Aesthetic look
- Alignment
- Enhancing the shape of the teeth
How do Bridges work?
Missing teeth create gaps that eventually leads to the shifting of the nearby teeth and may result in a bad bite when chewing food. Additionally, missing teeth can lead to Gum Diseases (Gingivitis & Periodontitis) and Temporomandibular Joint (TMJ) disorders.
Bridges help to overcome all the above complications. Bridges run across the missing teeth and are cemented or fixed to the natural teeth or implants surrounding the void where the teeth are missing.
Typically, a dental bridge will comprise two or more abutment teeth (the natural teeth or implants on either side of the gaps) and false tooth/teeth that act as a replacement for the missing tooth/teeth. The abutment teeth act as anchors for the artificial teeth.
It’s good to note that both Crowns & Bridges are available in an array of materials, the two most popular ones are porcelain & ceramic. Factors such as cost, esthetic look and location of the missing teeth will play a major role in deciding which material is best suited for you for constructing a bridge.