Dr. Mustapha Hotait on dental bridges
A dental bridge is, if you want to really kind of simplify it, you have one missing tooth or two missing teeth and you have some adjacent teeth to that space. What we end up doing is prepping those teeth slightly and we get the lab to fabricate a three-unit crown or four-unit crowns that are attached to each other, you know, call it a bridge, and that gets glued over those teeth. When the patient is missing teeth and there is no anchors on either side of that missing space, that’s when it’s a great benefit to have dental implants because we’re able to place those dental implants and place bridges on top of those.