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A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth.
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The construction or repair of bridges.
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The component parts of a bridge.
Examples of bridgework in a Sentence
Unlike conventional bridgework, dental implant treatment does not involve destructive procedures to adjoining teeth.
We can then subsequently place single crowns, bridgework, or attachments to retain dentures on top of the implants.
For more complex procedures such as crowns and bridgework, the plan may cover a lesser percentage of the cost or none at all.
Rankine gives the approximate rule Working deflection =5= l a /t o,000h, where l is the span and h the depth of the beam, the stresses being those usual in bridgework, due to the total dead and live load.