Dental knowledge: crowns and bridges
Crowns and bridges are ways of closing gaps without implants.
Where the loss of substance is great, your dentist will crown a tooth to restore its chewing function and shape. Gaps are closed for medical and aesthetic reasons, in order to balance the chewing forces in the mouth. If the neighbouring teeth have no large fillings and no damage, implantology suggests itself as the way to preserve that healthy tooth substance.
If the adjacent teeth need work in any case, or if other reasons rule out an implant, a fixed bridge is an alternative. Where a good aesthetic effect is wanted, pure metal-free ceramic crowns and bridges offer good options. Ceramic is compelling in its transparency, light refraction, colour and structure.
Sensitive patients are becoming ever more demanding about how well medical materials are tolerated, and about the biocompatibility of dental restorations in particular. A growing group of patients reacts sensitively to the allergenic properties of the materials used in conventional dental prosthetics. For restorations that are biocompatible in the long term and aesthetically demanding, metal-free ceramics such as zirconia are therefore used more and more widely across dentistry.
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