Dental Prostheses are the best solution to recover a beautiful and perfect smile, many people associate a Dental Prosthesis with a denture, but it is not quite like that. Fixed dental prostheses can be to cover the gap of one or more dental pieces.

Types of fixed dental prostheses

Within the fixed prostheses there are two types that are clearly distinguished, the crowns and the dental bridge:

● Crowns:

Crowns are very common today, they are called “covers”. These caps strengthen a dental piece. To make these covers, we made them in a laboratory, taking previous x-rays of the patient. The patient's tooth is carved and placed on it, a provisional crown is usually left and after a few days the final crown is put on. At our Odonto Stetic Dental Clinic we try to make each patient have the most perfect smile possible by making the crown fit snugly on the patient's teeth.

Normally crowns are placed when there has been a partial or total breakage of the tooth, or because a tooth has one or more defects.

Crowns are made of various materials, the most common being porcelain or ceramic sheaths, this material is very resistant and gives a very natural appearance to the tooth, both in shape and color.

Also in our clinic we use resin dental crowns, even though we give them provisional use, since they are not usually very resistant. When we have to elaborate and manufacture a crown we have to do it laboriously and perfectly in our laboratory, for this reason it takes several days to manufacture, and in these cases resin crowns are the best option, as a provisional alternative.

Zircon Crown

Zirconium crowns have the difference with crowns in the material, being made of zirconium allows the denture to be much more natural, as well as being lighter and adapting to the gum better, avoiding possible inflammation. One of the great advantages of zirconium crowns is that when drinking cold or very hot drinks we will not feel any kind of unpleasant sensation.

● Dental bridge:

The dental bridge is in high demand by people who are missing several teeth, or have their original but deteriorated teeth. It is made up of a set of crowns whose function is to cover an absent hole.

Before placing and preparing the bridge, it is necessary to carry out several x-rays where we will know what the mouth of each patient is like. Then a mold is made with a silicone to be able to manufacture the bridge.

A drawback of the dental bridge is that it requires the carving of the teeth, this is essential since they have to be placed on the teeth and the natural tooth needs to adhere to the bridge, which requires space. For this reason it must be carved.

To place the bridge you will have to go to the clinic another day, not everything will be done in the same session, since to make the bridge we need to manufacture it in the laboratory by the person in charge, who is the dental technician. We will proceed to place a provisional bridge, which will take a few days, this being very resistant so we can eat and chew well.