Dental crowns and bridges are a, basically a prosthesis that go on top of the natural tooth structure. With crowns, they’re a single unit prosthesis where we basically place a cap on top of the tooth structure to repair damaged or broken teeth over time. And with bridges, we can utilize damaged or broken teeth surrounding the area where the missing tooth is.
So it basically hovers over the missing area and it’s an alternative to dental implants, but not everybody is a candidate for dental bridges. With dental bridges, you have to be the right candidate for it. The tooth structure needs to have some sort of wear or damage.
Otherwise we’re prepping down the adjacent teeth, which is healthy tooth structure for no reason. So we try to make sure our patients are good candidates for dental bridges before we do them. And those are the two options that we provide at our office.
And we have to make sure that you’re the right candidate for both.
