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No matter what your dentist tells you, permanent bridges are most certainly NOT permanent. I have been through two of them and I would never recommend anyone to get one of those horrible things. All a bridge does is trade in one set of dental problems for an even greater set of dental problems later on. If you get 10 years out of your bridge it is a small miracle and after that bridge fails if your roots are strong enough to handle another one afterwards it is an even greater miracle. After that you are looking at a denture. Fixed bridges make absolutely no sense. Destroying good teeth to fill spaces is an extremely risky proposition to begin with, but what your dentist won't tell you is the myriad of problems that can occur:
1. if you damage one of the crowns you most likely must replace the entire bridge
2. if you get a cavity under the bridge you are positively screwed
3. bridges place a tremendous amount of stress on your roots and greatly increase the likelihood of one of your other teeth failing
4. bridges are terribly painful and expensive to replace
5. upper bridges grind down teeth below them like a soap stone
6. when your bridge fails (and it WILL fail eventually), your only real option will be extraction of your remaining roots and a partial denture.
KEEP YOUR NATURAL TEETH ALWAYS! Bridges do nothing but trade small dental problems for big ones later on. If you have one space your trying to fix, when you do a 3 crown bridge you will soon have 3 spaces to worry about instead of only one. JUST SAY NO TO FIXED BRIDGES! THEY ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND ALL THEY DO IS PUT MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF CROOKED DENTISTS!
1. if you damage one of the crowns you most likely must replace the entire bridge
2. if you get a cavity under the bridge you are positively screwed
3. bridges place a tremendous amount of stress on your roots and greatly increase the likelihood of one of your other teeth failing
4. bridges are terribly painful and expensive to replace
5. upper bridges grind down teeth below them like a soap stone
6. when your bridge fails (and it WILL fail eventually), your only real option will be extraction of your remaining roots and a partial denture.
KEEP YOUR NATURAL TEETH ALWAYS! Bridges do nothing but trade small dental problems for big ones later on. If you have one space your trying to fix, when you do a 3 crown bridge you will soon have 3 spaces to worry about instead of only one. JUST SAY NO TO FIXED BRIDGES! THEY ARE A WASTE OF TIME AND ALL THEY DO IS PUT MORE MONEY IN THE POCKETS OF CROOKED DENTISTS!
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