Chicago’s Downtown Dental offices are home to many dentists who are experienced providers of tooth restorations. One of the oldest and most reliable forms of restoration is the dental bridge, but there have been several improvements in it recently that present patients with more options.
A bridge is a series of artificial crowns that can be used to restore multiple teeth. The type of bridge most familiar to patients is one with a pontic crown suspended between two crowns that were cemented over reshaped natural teeth. This type of restoration allowed patients to retain the natural roots of the reshaped teeth, but it was developed at a time when dentists assumed all teeth would eventually need to be replaced. Modern dentists are more reluctant to reshape or extract natural teeth when they are healthy, making this kind of bridge less desirable for people without widespread decay.
In recent times, dentists have developed removable partial dentures with gaps to fit around healthy teeth. Removable bridges are easy to keep clean, but they need to be reshaped if the natural tooth shifts position, and they may still require nearby teeth to be slightly reshaped so the denture can clasp onto them. If the patient has sufficient jaw tissue, it is also possible for us to use implants to directly secure a dental bridge or partial denture to the patient’s jaw bone.
Downtown Dental LLC operates its Loop office at 25 E Washington St, Suite 1921, Chicago, Illinois, 60602. Call 312-782-8862. The River North office is at 676 N Michigan Ave, Suite #3500, Chicago, IL, 60611. Call 312-274-3333. Visit Downtown Dental online.
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