A fixed dental prosthesis used to replace one or more missing teeth by anchoring to adjacent teeth. Technical term used in dentistry; in everyday conversation, ブリッジ is more common.
Compound of 架工 (kakō, 'bridgework' or 'framework') and 義歯 (gishi, 'artificial tooth'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but the term is a modern technical coinage in dentistry.
