Definition of "bridgework" [bridgework]

• A dental bridge. (noun)
• Dental prosthetics involving a bridge or bridges. (noun)

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• "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."
• "“I found the glass on the draining board, ” said Mrs. Ali, presenting him with the thick tumbler in which he soaked his partial bridgework at night."
• "This tooth is a key tooth which anchored my upper bridgework."