What you should avoid eating with a dental bridge?

Restoring a missing tooth with a dental bridge offers various advantages. Fixing a dental bridge involves adhering a false tooth by cementing the crowns on either side of the fake tooth over the missing tooth’s adjacent teeth. In simple, the dental bridges adhered with the support of the neighboring teeth on both sides of the missing tooth.

The restoration appliance is fabricated with gold, porcelain, alloys, ceramic, zirconium or a combination of these.

It is clear that the tooth fixed with the prosthesis can effectively restore the tooth’s strength, chewing and biting ability. Meanwhile, you should be aware of what you are eating with teeth bridges because certain eatables make the tooth bridge susceptible to break, loosen or pulled away.

Some of those food items to be consumed minimally or avoided for the longevity of dental bridges are listed here.

1) Hot and cold beverages

Dental bridges do not restrict you from drinking tea and coffee but you should not consume them at extreme temperatures.

In certain cases, the gums recessed to cement the bridge expose the underlying region that is sensitive to hot and cold temperatures. It causes discomfort like teeth sensitivity and might disturb the crown’s bonding to the teeth. Dentists recommend people who get dental bridges to consume the drinks at mild temperatures.

2) Teeth-staining drinks

Unlike natural teeth, the dental bridges cannot get stained but they become faded or discolored over a while.

Removing stains or whitening the dental bridge is not possible. If you want to restore the appearance of your bridge, then you should remove the existing false tooth and replace it with a new one.

Drinks like black tea, soda, wine and some others make our teeth susceptible to stains and discoloration. The impact of these substances is the same as the dental restorative appliances as well as the natural teeth.

Hence it is mandatory to reduce the ingestion of those drinks to reduce the exposure of them on the bridge and crowns.

3) Sugary Foods and Drinks

Dental bridges and dental crowns are artificial substances. Hence they cannot decay. 

On the other hand, the teeth present under the crown are natural and they can be infected with cavities. When a crowned tooth with which the bridge is fixed, then the false tooth will lose its support and it pulls out the dental bridge.

This is the reason why Dentists recommend the people who get dental restorations to minimally consume sweetened foods. When you eat sugary food items, rinse well your mouth to expel the sugar substances stuck between the teeth and the bridge.

4) Food items that are hard to chew

Damage in the dental bridge is possible when the pressure applied over the false tooth exceeds the maximum potential. It occurs when you bite hard edibles with your dental bridge. Food items like nuts, popcorn, chips, hard candies can cause chips or crack over the crowns fixed and bridge placed.

Meanwhile, biting raw vegetables also make the tooth crown vulnerable to damage. You might know how hard to bite a raw carrot. It is better to cut the raw vegetables into slices for eating.

5) Sticky Foods

Removing the leftover of food particles like jelly, chewing gums, raisins, peanut butter and other sticky food substances deposited on the teeth is quite difficult. Such sticky food substances over the crowns and bridges are harmful to the restorative appliances.

Similar to sugar particles, the sticky substances trap between the bridges or underneath the bridge. It makes the oral bacteria to thrive and cause dental caries which weakens the support for the dental bridge.

Conclusion

As mentioned earlier, teeth bridges and crowns do not restrict you from eating what you like. You should remember that eatables which harm or break your teeth can damage the fixed dental bridges also. Reducing the consumption of the mentioned food items will extend the durability of the tooth bridge fixed.