Quality Restorative Dentistry in Mesa, AZ
During your first dental examination with x-rays, you will be given the opportunity to discuss your dental health and goals. What is important to you, is priority for us. You will be presented with options to meet your dental goals. We offer many different services. But, you will be invited to join the decision-making process of what dental treatment will work best for you. In partnership with your dentist, you will have a healthy smile and know you were a part of the process. Leaving the dental office feeling confident and informed of your dental plan is our goal.
Dental bridges act as they sound, bridging the gap created by one or more missing teeth. Traditional dental bridges involve creating a crown for the tooth or implant on either side of the missing tooth, with a false tooth/teeth in between.
What Are the Benefits of Dental Bridges?
- Restore your smile
- Restore the ability to properly chew and speak
- Maintain the shape of your face
- Distribute the forces in your bite properly by replacing missing teeth
- Prevent remaining teeth from drifting out of position
Why Do I Need a Dental Bridge?
If you have a missing tooth or missing teeth, it can affect you in a number of ways, including your confidence. A dental bridge can help address any concerns you may have, including:
- Restoring your smile to it’s natural look
- Readjusting your bite and the ability to properly chew
- Restoring your speech and pronunciation
- Maintaining the shape of your jaw and face
- Preventing your remaining teeth from moving out of position
What’s Involved in Getting A Dental Bridge?
Once you’re ready for a bridge, at your first visit, we’ll prepare the teeth on both sides of the gap. The bridge will then attach to those teeth.
The dentist then will make an impression or an image of your teeth and the space. That information is sent to a special dental laboratory to make the bridge. A temporary bridge will be placed to protect your prepared teeth while you are waiting for the permanent bridge to be made.
Once your permanent bridge is ready, your dentist fits, adjusts, and cements the bridge to the prepared teeth. This type of bridge is permanent and cannot be taken out of your mouth, except for by your dentist.
Crowns are a restorative procedure used to improve your tooth’s shape or to strengthen a tooth. Crowns are most often used for teeth that are broken, worn, or have portions destroyed by tooth decay.
A crown is a “cap” cemented onto an existing tooth that usually covers the portion of your tooth above the gum line. In effect, the crown becomes your tooth’s new outer surface. Crowns can be made of porcelain, metal, or both. Porcelain crowns are most often preferred because they mimic the translucency of natural teeth and are very strong.
Crowns or onlays (partial crowns) are needed when there is insufficient tooth strength remaining to hold a filling. Unlike fillings, which apply the restorative material directly into your mouth, a crown is fabricated away from your mouth. Your crown is created in a lab from your unique tooth impression, which allows a dental laboratory technician to examine all aspects of your bite and jaw movements. Your crown is then sculpted just for you so that your bite and jaw movements function normally once the crown is placed.