Removable dental appliances can be annoying, unaesthetic, and may even diminish confidence in your smile. Dental appliances are a lot like dental retainers, but have prosthetic teeth positioned to replace a missing tooth
Until now, if your smile had a missing anterior tooth, your only options for an attractive smile were a removable dental appliance, dental implants, or fixed bridgework.
Dental implants require a prosthetic root be surgically implanted into the bone tissue of the jaw to support a prosthetic tooth.
Fixed bridgework replaces a missing tooth by preparing adjacent teeth for crowns, and affixing a prosthetic tooth between the two crowns as a single unit, hence the name bridge. Adjacent teeth must be permanently altered to support the bridgework.
Using advanced materials and techniques, the cosmetic dentist can now bond a prosthetic tooth directly to the adjacent teeth without permanently altering the adjacent teeth or performing implant surgery. This procedure is known as a direct-bonded prosthetic, and has proven to be an excellent option for replacing missing anterior teeth.
If you have a missing anterior tooth, please ask us about direct-bonded prosthetics. We would be happy to restore your smile.