Diagram of a dental bridge showing the 3-unit bridge, abutments, pontic, and parts of the teeth used for a dental restoration.
A step-by-step diagram of dental bridge procedure. Step 1 shows a missing tooth. Step 2 shows teeth prepared for the bridge. Step 3 shows the bridge being placed with an arrow pointing to where the missing tooth was. Step 4 shows the final dental bridge after installation.

Dental bridge

A bridge is a fixed dental restoration used to replace one or more missing teeth by joining an artificial tooth definitively to adjacent teeth or dental implants. It could also be made of same as dental crowns