Well, after thinking long and hard about this, I’m going to have a new bridge made.  Throwing away the 25 year old Maryland bridge and going with a 4 tooth bridge across teeth 7-10.

A couple of things led me away from the implant to this decision of a new bridge.  The first being that the other front tooth (real one) is showing signs of stress with a hairline fracture.  The second is that tooth 7 has something going on where it is dying.  How do I know this?  Well, we decided to whiten my teeth prior to the bridge.  That tooth is not doing very well in the whitening and it actually looks a little worse now that the other teeth are white.

So, this coming Monday, I have a 2.5 hour appointment to grind down 3 teeth and will have a 4 tooth bridge installed about a week later.  Of course a temporary bridge will be installed in the meantime.

Cost?  About $3500.  In the long run, it will be cheaper than the implant which was going to be about $3000 and any additionaly work that would have had to be done on the other two teeth listed above.

I’ll write another post after Monday to update how it went.