Bridgework

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  • noun. A dental bridge.
  • noun. Dental prosthetics involving a bridge or bridges.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The adjustment of artificial teeth by attaching the frame holding them to adjacent sound teeth as abutments.
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  • noun. A partial denture that is anchored to existing teeth
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  • noun. a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth
  • Word Usage
    "His cunning intelligence chief was General Tai Li, a short and stocky man always dressed in a khaki coat buttoned tightly at the collar, whose teeth were laced with gold bridgework that he exposed during the rare times he smiled."
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