This morning I had my appointment to get my temporary bridge. Before they started to remove the remains of the old bridge, they took some molds of my teeth as they already were. They had me keep my retainer with the prothetic tooth in.
Then they used topical anasthetic to numb my gums. Then they gave me novocaine. This hurt some as they really had to get the needle deep to get to up by my roots. The dentist said I had long roots. Then he started putting notches on the old crowns. I had a little pain from the vibrations, so they gave me some more novocaine.
Once there were notched in the old crowns, he used a tool to pry apart the notch which broke off the old crown. At least this is what it looked like from my vantage point.
He clean up the teeth that were under the crowns. He said there was a little decay, but nothing major. Then there was some more molds taken.
They squirted some stuff into one of the molds, and this was to become my temporary bridge. He said it was made of acrylic. The permanent bridge would had metal inside and porcelain and would stronger.
The dentist pulled the temporary bridge out of the mold and cleaned it up. They glued it to the old teeth that were under the old crowns. He seemed to spend some time coloring it and they used a uv light to set the color stuff.
When I looked in a mirror, the results were great. I can’t wait to see what the permanent bridge looks like. Since the temporary bridge is made of acrylic, it’s not as strong. So I need to be careful about eating anything hard or sticky with those teeth.
I have an appointment in a few weeks to get the permanent bridge. The bridge is costing me about $1700 out of pocket. The insurance company is covering about 40%.

Posted by Rob in Whatever on May 4th, 2009 | No Comments