When a patient is missing one or more teeth a bridge can often times be fabricated to replace the missing area. A bridge is a fixed restoration meaning it is cemented in place and does not come out of the mouth.
Bridges are made by preparing adjacent teeth next to the missing area and then having a laboratory make a series of crowns or inlays that are fused together and cemented down to replace the missing tooth. Alternatives to bridges are removable partial dentures and dental implants.
As a second-generation dentist, Dr. Matiasevich was raised in Santa Cruz. He did his undergraduate work in economics at the University of California Irvine and attended the University of Southern California for his dental degree.