Implants or Bridge or Both?

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My girl friend has two lower jaw gaps, each gap missing two teeth. We are considering both implants and bridges. Obviously, there is a huge difference in price if we do 4 implants, plus her dentist says he wouldn't do a four unit bridge if the total width of the four teeth is more than 47 mm. There is another possibility which I suddenly thought about doing. That is having one implant filling half of each gap, waiting until the new implants heal, then having two 3 unit bridges made, again, a significant cost savings and clearly considerably narrower than 47 mm. Plus, the chances of the 3-unit bridge lasting and performing well should be better than a 4 unit bridge. What are the pros and cons of each choice?
 
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You shouldn't consider as an option a 3-unit bridge attached on implant and natural tooth.
Go for a 4 unit bridge or ideally 2 implants per site.
 

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I agree. There's no reason you can't do a 4 unit bridge. Just make sure the doc is prescribing the right material. Would have to be pfm or zirconia or gold(expensive). Emax isn't strong enough for that large of a bridge.
 

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