A removable bridge is sometimes called a partial denture.

On his palm rested a two-carat diamond and a partial denture.

They can replace all the teeth in your mouth (complete denture) or only some of them (partial denture).

Not only does a partial denture fill in the spaces created by missing teeth, it prevents other teeth from changing position.

Billy brushed his teeth on Tralfamadore, put in his partial denture, and went into his kitchen.

The theory behind Krol's decision was to allow for movement of the partial denture without placing too much torque on the abutment tooth.

Partial denture abutments are unique in that they may incorporate elements such as rest seats, guide planes, and recontouring.

A precision partial denture is removable and has internal attachments rather than clasps that attach to the adjacent crowns.

A bridge may also refer to a single-piece multiple unit fixed partial denture (numerous single-unit crowns either cast or fused together).

The partial denture he had found inside his little impresario's coat, incidentally, was in his cufflinks box in his dresser drawer.

In dentistry, precision attachments are the functional mechanical parts of the removable partial denture made of plastic, metal or a combination of both.

For unerupted teeth, function can be restored with a removable partial denture until all major growth has been completed and a final restoration can be placed.

The reason why this type of prosthesis is referred to as a removable partial denture is because patients can remove and reinsert them when required without professional help.

They consist of two parts referred as the 'male' part that is fixed to a crown inside the patient's mouth and a 'female' part which holds the partial denture.

A removable partial denture or bridge usually consists of replacement teeth attached to a pink or gum-colored plastic base, which is connected by metal framework that holds the denture in place in the mouth.

Following tooth extraction, a single missing tooth can be replaced with a dental implant, fixed partial denture (commonly known as a bridge), or by a removable partial denture.

Although he had a removable partial denture he wore in public, he didn't wear it during games, and pictures of Lambert's toothless snarl became an iconic image of the famous Steeler defense.

Another situation in which a crown is the restoration of choice is when a tooth is intended as an abutment tooth for a removable partial denture, but is initially unfavorable for such a task.

When restoring an edentulous space with a fixed partial denture that will crown the teeth adjacent to the space and bridge the gap with a pontic, or "dummy tooth", the restoration is referred to as a bridge.

If the orthodontic wire clasp terminated at its approximation with the dental abutment undercut it engages as do conventional removable partial denture clasps, the interim palatal lift prosthesis could be difficult to insert and remove.

Instead, he is showing off some of his products: a 24-karat gold tooth that will be covered in porcelain, a metal frame that will hold a partial denture, and a company specialty, a flexible pink gasket known as a Cu-Sil denture, which is gentler than metal on the adjoining teeth.