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Stella came to see me because she snapped one of her teeth off at the gum line eating one of her grand-children’s Gummy Bears. She wanted to fill in the space of her missing tooth but had other concerns with her teeth.
She also said she didn’t like how fake her front 4 crowns looked and regretted getting them so white because they didn’t match her other teeth and in photos they really stood out like Chiclets.
Stella wanted her bridge to look more like her natural teeth in colour and to blend in with the rest of her mouth.
So I removed her front 3 crowns and prepared her left Canine tooth for the bridge. I made Stella custom temporary crowns where I hand shaped the biting edges and simulated a halo effect on them to make them look more natural. She liked them but thought they were still a little too bright so I applied tints to add warmth and some texture to reflect light differently. She loved those modifications so my temporaries became the blueprint for her final crowns and bridge.
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See what Dr. Jeff Ceyhan can do for you!
When you have missing teeth, a prosthodontist or dentist can fill this gap or “bridge” the gaps in your smile with false teeth. A bridge then, is a false tooth (called a pontic) that fills in the gap in your smile that is attached to the teeth adjacent to the gap by cemented crowns. Another term for this is a fixed partial denture (fixed, because it attaches to the other teeth with a glue/cement). This is an example of a bridge to replace 4 missing front teeth. The end crowns on the left and right get cemented to the 2 teeth next to the gap in the mouth and the 4 pontics (false teeth) fill in the gap between the missing teeth. If the false tooth is attached to the adjacent teeth with some thin metal wire hooks, this is not a bridge. Dentists call this a removable partial denture because you can remove your false teeth by unhooking the wires from your mouth.
A dental implant is a root substitute so it is used when you have missing teeth. It is an artificial root made of titanium that looks like a screw (see photo). It’s inserted into the jawbone, under the gumline, to replace the roots of missing natural teeth. When the implant is healed, it fuses to the jaw bone so that you can use it as an anchor to attach artificial teeth like, dentures, crowns and bridges. The specialists that are involved with implant dentistry are, prosthodontists, oral surgeons and periodontists. The prosthodontists do all the planning for the implant and give you the artificial teeth, the oral surgeons and periodontists place the implant anchor in the jawbone and monitor the healing.
That is a good question and it depends on a lot of factors. Your prosthodontist or dentist would review these factors with you in helping you to decide what type of restoration would be best for you to replace the missing teeth. For an implant your dentist will look at the following information: do you have enough height and thickness of bone to place an implant into? Do the teeth next to the missing teeth need crowns or already have crowns? When you bite down, do you have enough space for an implant restoration and for the components? Do you have manual dexterity to clean around a bridge or around a deep implant? Do you want the gap filled as quickly a possible or are you willing to have temporary false teeth there for 3-6 months while the implant heals?
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| Tuesday | 8:00am – 4:00pm |
| Wednesday | 8:00am – 4:00pm |
| Thursday | 8:00am – 4:00pm |
| Friday | 8:00am – 2:30pm |
Dental Design Prosthodontics is committed to providing high quality prosthodontic services in a comfortable environment.
