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Every dental office makes their own policy on fractured restorations. Your dentist will need to know exactly what happened when it broke to be able to assess the situation.
If the bridge is a finished ceramic or ceramic to metal bridge it should not have broken in the middle.If it was a composite or acyrlic temporary one..then the breakage may be due to the fact the final treatment was not completed. But let's address the answer if it was a finished bridge. Both your dentist and the lab should make good with a replacement at no charge to you if it broke under normal conditions (meaning excluding a tramatic accident, a blow to your teeth or the like). Speak to your dentist, describe how it happened and a replacement should be done at no cost to you if the office is fair and understanding.
Most labs will guarantee their work for 1 to 5 years depending on the lab and material of the bridge.
An open bite is a result of a temporomandibular joint problem whether there's a bridge there or not. The best way to diagnose that problem is to have a specialized MRI of your jaw joints.
Sometimes that works but it's not usually a long tem solution. The solution with the best prognosis is to place an implant in the space where there's no tooth.
You have 3 options depending on where the piece is broken off:The best option is of course get a new bridge, the second best option is see a cosmetic dentist to repair the fracture via dental bonding, and check your bite. I have treated many patients with dental bonding for repair of porcelain...
