Crowns and Bridges, Cosmetic Denstistry San Francisco
Crowns and bridges in cosmetic dentistry benefit from the same
techniques and materials that were developed for porcelain veneers. Below please find examples
utilizing the same treatment sequences and techniques that are applied for the placement of porcelain veneers for simply improving
a smile.
Bridges
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These photographs show a bridge
that does not contain any metal. Note that the molar
on the right side of the space needed only a very limited
reduction to hold the bridge attachment. A lot of tooth
structure was preserved with this bridge design.
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This patient came with a discolored
bridge and crowns that had leaking and dark margins
at the gum line. The patient received a 3-unit polymer
sub-structure with a thin metal core. The porcelain veneers that
were bonded to this bridge sub-structure consisted of
same material as the neighboring crowns. Note their
natural appearance.
This patient came with a porcelain-metal bridge that
replaced a missing right central incisor and a porcelain-metal
crown. Note the dark margins, the disproportionately
long replacement tooth (pontic) of the bridge, and the
bulkiness of the crowns (left).
The patient received a 3G all-porcelain bridge covering
the space of the missing tooth and the two adjacent
teeth. He received 3 additional 3G all-porcelain crowns
to create proper dental proportions (right).
Crowns
Under certain conditions it is necessary to replace
large defects or dental disfigurements that are caused
by trauma, gum disease, extreme dental neglect, or other
situation that lead to the loss of entire teeth. These
specific dental conditions require a combination of
both restorative and aesthetic or cosmetic dentistry.
The good news is that any of these conditions can be
restored to a natural-looking smile.
Do you remember having
seen that big dark space that appeared when your conversation
partner had that big smile in his/her face?
How often have you seen a person smiling at
you and exposing a dark margin of a crown at the
gum line, crowns that do not blend in with the
remaining teeth because they are too bulky or
too opaque?
Well, those are the
crowns and bridges of the past. New materials
and clinical methods allow us today to create invisible
tooth restorations. They include naturally translucent
all-glass-ceramic crowns, porcelain veneers, porcelain-fused-to-metal
crowns with porcelain margins, gingival plastic
surgery, and much more.
HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR OWN SMILE?
The central photograph shows a
porcelain restoration that becomes completely invisible
once it is bonded to the tooth. If you want to know
more about the material, please go to the Empress page.
How to create a "real" tooth:
Click here to see an animated version of the entire
sequence.
(This file is 715k and will take
approximately 130sec to download with a 56k modem).
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