My bridge keeps falling off, but I don’t want a dental implant, what can I do?
Hi Mark,
3 years ago, my side tooth was extracted and the dentist suggested that I have a bridge which is glued/cemented to either side of the teeth. For the past 2 years, I have gone back to my dentist (sometimes on a monthly basis) as the bridge keeps falling out. Each visit is costing me £90.00. I don’t want an implant. Would you suggest a false tooth, or is this not possible. Many thanks for you time.
Hi and thanks for your question
If you don’t want to have a denture or ‘false tooth’ nor an implant solution , then that only leaves bridgework or accepting the gap.
The type of bridge you have is called a ‘resin-bonded’ or a ‘Maryland’ bridge. It sounds like this is failing. It could be that it’s not been designed properly, or maybe it’s not been glued correctly. it could also be that your bite is causing it to continually drop out?
So one solution may be a new ‘sticky’ bridge but very well made and glued on and attention paid to your bite.
This however may still not be possible as a long term solution. A conventional bridge is usually more retentive but usually requires the sacrifice of lots of tooth structure not the tooth or teeth either side of your gap.
The best thing to do is to come for a consultation and we could give you some options for solutions.
An implant would be the best option in most cases however
Hope that helps
Mark
Hi,
I came across this post looking for a similar solution. I have a similar problem, only I’ve got a gap of 3 teeth on the side (I have a conventional bridge that keeps falling out). In my case though the one tooth that was filed down was a milk tooth which miraculously had stayed in there and therefore also had almost no roots – it broke eventually.
I’ve heard about implants being risky, requiring a long hospital stay, drilling into the jaw, etc and I can’t afford that timewise or moneywise. Is there a 3rd option (not bridge and not the kind of implant I’m describing here)?
Thanks
PS: I would agree with the dentist a conventional bridge is far more permanent but also more risky, like in my case, IF you have a weak tooth, a gap of one can quickly become a gap of 3, see a REPUTABLE dentist (not like the one I saw), or maybe even a few and ask his/their opinion(s)
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