{"id":2987,"date":"2022-01-09T16:59:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-09T21:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/?p=2987"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T18:38:36","slug":"emergency-temporary-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/emergency-temporary-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Teeth Temporary Bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This patient broke off her front teeth and delayed treatment due to fear of contracting COVID. I cleaned up the decay and made her a PMMA temporary bridge so she could smile for the holidays.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2988\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2988 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_bridge-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"pmma bridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_bridge-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_bridge-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_bridge.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">before\/after PMMA bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2989\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2989\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_design.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2989 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_design-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_design-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_design-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma_design.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2989\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">computer design<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2990\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2990\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2990 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"dental bridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/pmma.jpg 421w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2990\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">CAD\/CAM milled bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This patient broke off her front teeth and delayed treatment due to fear of contracting COVID. I cleaned up the decay and made her a PMMA temporary bridge so she could smile for the holidays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11,14,22,29,28,129,43,31,30,100,10,101,52,12,71,15,17,192,26,175,13,16],"class_list":["post-2987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridge","tag-arlington","tag-best-dentist","tag-bridge","tag-cavities","tag-cavity","tag-cosmetic-dentistry","tag-crown","tag-decay","tag-dental","tag-dental-bonding","tag-dentist","tag-dentistry","tag-digital-dentistry","tag-dr-gentry","tag-dr-philip-gentry","tag-northern-virginia","tag-philip-gentry","tag-pmma","tag-smile","tag-smile-makeover","tag-top-dentist","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2987"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2987\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caringdentists.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}