When you have missing teeth, we can help with advanced dentistry! With porcelain bridges, we can offer a metal-free and holistic solution to your tooth loss. In today’s blog, Lake Orion Family Dentistry in Lake Orion, MI, talks about filling gaps in your smile with porcelain bridges. Whether you have one missing tooth or as many two or three in a row, we can help with a durable and lifelike dental prosthetic!
Metal-Free Tooth Replacement
Don’t live with an embarrassing gap on your smile. In addition to altering the appearance of your smile in negative ways, tooth loss is linked to an increased risk of misalignment, along with complications like tooth decay, gum disease, TMJ disorder, and even bruxism (teeth grinding). You could also have issues with eating or even clear speech! But we can help. With a porcelain bridge, we have a holistic and lifelike way to handle a missing tooth or as many as three in a row using a metal-free option!
Creating Your Porcelain Bridge
To begin, we will need to numb the teeth on each side of the open space in your smile. Known as the abutment teeth, these will be key for securing your new prosthetic in place. Our team will remove structure from them, which allows them to accommodate the crown portions of your new smile. We then take digital images of the prepared teeth and the open space, which we use in a lab setting to design and craft your new teeth. Instead of metal, we will create the new prosthetic from porcelain, which is very strong and durable, able to handle daily bite forces with ease. The material can also be color-matched to ensure the final product blends with your smile and looks natural.
Securing Your Holistic Prosthetic
Once your new dental prosthetic is ready, our team will check the fit and make sure we don’t need to make any final adjustments. We then connect the crown portions to the abutment teeth with a powerful bonding agent, which can secure the new teeth in place. Your new teeth can look natural and offer a durable chewing surface, and last for years to come with proper care and attention. You should brush and floss it as you would natural teeth, and also clean the areas between the top of the gums and the bottom of the prosthetic.
If you have any questions about how we take on minor tooth loss with a lifelike and dependable results, then contact our team about our porcelain bridges, or any of our other metal-free and holistic treatment options.
Lake Orion Family Dentistry Offers Porcelain Bridges
For people with missing teeth, we can offer a full smile with a lifelike and porcelain dental prosthetic. To find out more about advanced dental care, or to schedule an appointment, call Lake Orion Family Dentistry in Lake Orion, MI at (248)693-6213.
