What is "bridgework"

Usage examples of "bridgework".

Davis kept smiling hard at me, flashing her gold bridgework and stretching her shiny vinyl cheeks.

Tethered to the surface by a trio of cables, the island was a light collection of flowered balconies and lacy bridgework, enclosing a central gas bag, topped by tall whimsical glass spires and greenhouse towers.

The crane was tall enough to provide them decent cover, but its bridgework was no sure protection from laser fire.

Another accident occurred when Flossie Devine, in a Dancing Trout station wagon late at night on her way back from a Capital City dentist, swerved to avoid a mammoth tumbleweed loping across the highway and wound up in a ditch with her new bridgework in her lap.

The scalloped blaze of his bridgework matches the macabre brilliance of his flounced dicky.

He was given glasses and bridgework, if he needed them, and he was immunized against every imaginable disease.

Leng helped him get some silver bridgework and a special pair of eyeglasses with an unusually thick lens.

Etruscans who inhabited the Italian hill country and the Phenicians, so that it is no surprise to find that the oldest of Etruscan tombs contain some fine examples of bridgework.

Diehl clenched his teeth to the point of almost cracking some expensive bridgework, but managed to suppress an answer that would have been impractical and unprofitable.

Volker also obtained a withheld report disclosing European bridgework to the dead girl's front left incisor and Claudine sent a separate cable advising details of any dental work be circulated to every dentist around the city.

The bridgework creating a false second left molar between the third and seventh in the mouth of the Turkish girl in Cologne contained non-Asian gold and in the opinion of the German orthodontist he'd asked to examine it the work was recent, within the preceding nine months, and implanted in Germany.

By his dental bridgework, the charred body was identified as that of General Peter Fungabera, and five days later he was ' buried with full military honours in 'Heroes' Acre', the cemetery for the patriots of the Chimurenga on the hills overlooking Harare.

Next thing I know, they're asking about his bridgework, trying to identify his body from the crowns on his molars.

It wouldn't activate an airport security scanner, not unless the scanner was set so it'd go off from the bridgework in your teeth.

I don't expect any bridgeworks will have met any better fate than the road surface or our own gear.