Prosthetics procedures:

Fixed or removable appliance to replace missing teeth

Implants

• Specialist procedure where a titanium implant is surgically placed in the bone and a crown, bridge or denture is attached to this. The surgery is done by a specialist oral surgeon or periodontist on referral.

Bridges:

• fixed appliances produced in the laboratory to replace one or more missing teeth
• formed by: abutments (set on the teeth on each side of the empty space) and pontics (replace the missing tooth or teeth)

Dentures:

• when the patient is edentulous- missing all the teeth in either upper or lower jaw
• removable appliances that replace the missing teeth on either upper or lower jaw
• made in the laboratory, of plastic (acrylic) or metal (chrome)

Partial dentures:

• removable appliances that replace some the missing teeth on either upper or lower jaw
• made in the laboratory, of plastic (acrylic) or metal (chrome)