Dental Bridges in Creston, IA

Replace Missing Teeth and Smile With Confidence

Your teeth play an important role in speaking, chewing, and maintaining proper alignment of other teeth. Dental bridges can restore up to four adjacent missing teeth to reverse the effects of tooth loss.

At Buck Family Dentistry, our restorative dentist in Creston, IA, will ensure your bridges match your surrounding teeth for a natural appearance. Dr. Michael Buck has helped patients in Corning, Thayer, and Aspen repair their smiles with reliable dental restorations.

What Are Dental Bridges?

Dental bridges can replace one or more missing teeth using replacement teeth called pontics attached to one or more dental crowns. Crowns get placed on the teeth adjacent to the bridge, called abutment teeth. The pontic is suspended between the crowns to fill the gap left by missing teeth. Bridges help restore your smile’s function, health, and appearance.

Candidacy for Dental Bridges

Dr. Buck may recommend dental bridges for patients struggling with:

• Missing teeth
• Significant tooth gaps
• Severely damaged or decayed teeth

Look no further than dental bridges if you’re missing one to four adjacent teeth and want a convenient, affordable tooth loss replacement. Call our Creston, IA, dental office at 641-782-4747 to learn more and schedule your consultation.

The Dental Bridge Process

The attachment procedure usually takes two or three appointments, depending on your oral health needs. At your first appointment, Dr. Michael Buck will prepare the teeth on either side of the gap by removing a portion of the enamel and dentin.

Since the bridge must be fabricated precisely to ensure the correct bite and to match the opposing tooth, impressions of the teeth are taken and sent to a lab where they’ll construct your customized bridge.

Our dentist will cement your fixed bridge to the natural teeth next to the space left by the missing teeth. A pontic (false tooth) replaces the lost tooth, and dental crowns support the bridge.