- Comprehensive Care |
- Preventive Care |
- Restorative Dentistry |
- Crowns
- Bridges |
- Fillings |
- Restorative Implant Dentistry |
- Tooth Whitening
- Root Canals |
- Extractions |
- Oral Sedation Dentistry
Fillings
Defective and unattractive fillings can be replaced with bonded tooth-colored materials such as porcelain or composite. Tooth colored fillings are the most common replacement and have many advantages over silver fillings:
- Preservation and strengthening of existing structure
- Minimal allergic reactions
- Biological compatibility
- No development of metal sensitivity
- Natural looking
When decay has eaten away the tooth, a hole remains. We need to fill this hole produced by the decay; a "filling" is thus placed.
Today there are basically two types of filling: "silver" fillings and "white" fillings.
There has been much bad publicity regarding silver fillings as they contain mercury, a
toxic substance. We use only mercury-free fillings for a beautiful smile.
