Prosthodontics is the dental specialty pertaining to the diagnosis, treatment planning and rehabilitation of clinical conditions associated with missing or deficient teeth and/or tissues using biocompatible substitutes. Dental Prosthodontists treatment restores oral function through dentures – complete and partial, fixed bridges, crowns of various materials, implant supported dentures, temporom and ibular joint disorder etc.

Dental Crowning is all about dental restoration. Under this procedure the decaying tooth is completely encircled to save it from degradation or breaking-out. Whereas Bridge in teeth, involves restoration of missing teeth by putting an artificial teeth in its place permanently.

Crowns & Bridges Procedure

A dental impression of tooth is made to make a crown. Once the crown of tooth is moulded, it is implanted in the place of decaying tooth. For making a crown of tooth, restorative materials like porcelain, silver and gold are used. Scientifically proven methods like CAD/CAM, Leucite Reinforcement are applied to carry out the procedure.

In case of dental bridge problems, a bridge in teeth is made out by reducing the size of either side of adjacent teeth, and then putting an artificial tooth, made out of porcelain or composite resin. In layman’s language, this restorative tooth is called the dummy tooth. The entire process of Bridging involves three steps: tooth preparation, restoration fabrication and post – restoration treatment.

Crowns and bridges are scientifically proven and tested methods of tackling tooth decay. These are generally practiced on people in their mid 30’s and elder people above the age of 50. In rare cases, these are practiced upon youngsters/teenagers. Despite of the fact that these two procedures are so popular, one can also go for dental implants if suggested by the doctor.

Crown
A crown is used to cover a tooth and may be commonly referred to as a "cap." Traditionally, the teeth to be crowned are prepared by a dentist, and records are given to a dental technician to construct the prosthesis. The records include models, which are replicas of a patient's teeth, and the impressions used to make these models. There are many different methods of crown fabrication, each using a different material. Some methods are quite similar, and utilize either very similar or identical materials. Crowns may be made of gold or other similar metals, porcelain, or a combination of the two.

Bridge
A bridge is used to span, or bridge, an edentulous area (space where teeth are missing), usually by connecting to fixed restorations on adjacent teeth. The teeth used to support the bridge are called abutments. A bridge may also refer to a single-piece multiple unit fixed partial denture (numerous single-unit crowns either cast or fused together). The part of the bridge which replaces a missing tooth and attaches to the abutments is known as a "pontic." For multiple missing teeth, some cases may have several pontics.