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A Summary of Dental Bridge Uses, Types, Recovery and Complications

Muralinath E., Guruprasad M., Rishita D., Sethuraman V., Charan B., Sahasra. D., Rahitya Sri K.

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A dental bridge replaces one or more missing or broken teeth with fake teeth.Bridges use one or more real teeth on either side of the gap to hold the fake teeth in place. Bridges may be either fixed, which means that they are permanent, or removable, which means that a person can take them out.Dentists call each fake tooth in a bridge a “pontic,” and some healthcare providers refer to a bridge as a “fixed partial denture.


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