Dental Filling | Tooth Colour Filling – Aries Oro-Facial Dental Clinic

Dental Filling Benefits, Drawbacks, Procedure, Pictures

If you have cavities in your tooth, your dentist may recommend temporary or permanent Dental Filling to help further tooth decay, prevent infection and strengthen the teeth.

Dental restoration uses temporary Dental Filling replaced with many types of materials, mostly composite resin material, but the most widely used type of tooth colored composite resin replacement filling is silver amalgam fillings.

Historically amalgam was the most commonly employed composite filling material for metal filling, but composites were increasingly popular because they combined looks and durability. The following is a list of common fillers for the plastic industry and their safety.

What is a dental filling?

Fillings are used for repairing small-holed teeth or cavities broken teeth. A cavity or newly filled tooth or in tooth structure remaining behind also can be improved by removing decayed teeth tissue before filling the tooth structure and remaining tooth or tooth grinding cavities with a dental filling or substance.

Types of Dental Fillings

Dental filling has different forms. In most cases the type of dental and different filling materials used will vary depending on oral health foundation the severity of decay and other factors like allergy. Typical dental filling materials are:

What materials are dental fillings made from?

Dental filling materials include:

• Gold.
• Porcelain ( Inlay , Onlay or Overlay ) – Indirect Fillings
• Silver amalgam (contains mercury mixed with silver, tin, zinc, and copper). – Direct Fillings
• Tooth-colored, plastic and glass materials called composite resin fillings – Direct Fillings

Silver Amalgam filling

Dental amalgam is a restorative and filling material commonly used in cosmetic dentistry, dental amalgams used to repair and fill cavities caused by tooth and decay causing bacteria. It is a mixture of metals, dental amalgam primarily consisting of approximately 50% elemental mercury along with powdered alloys of silver, tin, and copper.

Amalgam has been used as dental filling materials in dentistry for over 150 years and has proven to be a durable and cost-effective composite material used for filling teeth. Its popularity emergency dental treatment stems from its strength, longevity, and ease of use as dental filling in. Amalgam fillings are used to repair particularly useful in areas of the mouth where chewing forces are strong, such baby teeth such as the molars.

Advantages of silver and gold fillings

• Durability — silver fillings last at least 10 to 15 years and usually outlasts composite (tooth-colored) fillings.
• Strength — can withstand chewing forces
• Expense — may be less expensive than composite fillings

Disadvantages of silver fillings:

Poor aesthetics

silver fillings don’t match the color of natural teeth.

Destruction of more tooth structure

healthy parts of the tooth must often be removed to make a space large enough to hold the amalgam filling.

Discoloration

amalgam fillings can create a grayish hue to the surrounding tooth structure.

Cracks and fractures

although all teeth expand and contract in the presence of hot and cold liquids, which ultimately can cause the tooth to crack or fracture, amalgam material

in comparison with other filling materials

may experience a wider degree of expansion and contraction and lead to a higher incidence of cracks and fractures.

Allergic reactions

a small percentage of people, approximately 1%, are allergic to the mercury present in amalgam restorations.

Avoid Silver Filling in

People at greater risk include:

• Pregnant women and their developing fetuses.
• Women who are planning to become pregnant.
• Nursing women and their newborns.
• Children, especially those younger than six years of age.
• People with pre-existing neurological diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis or Parkinson’s disease.
• People with impaired kidney function.
• People with sensitivity or allergy to mercury or other components of dental amalgam

Tooth-colored Restoration | Composites Restoration

Steps involved in Composite Filling –

for Anterior teeth –

For Posterior Teeth

Advantages of Tooth Colour Restoration | composites Restoration:

• Aesthetics — the shade/color of the composite fillings can be closely matched to the color of existing teeth. Composites are particularly well suited for use in front teeth or visible parts of teeth
• Bonding to tooth structure — composite fillings micro-mechanically bond to tooth structure, providing further support.
• Versatility — in addition to use as a filling material for decay, composite fillings can also be used to repair chipped, broken, or worn teeth.
• Tooth-sparing preparation — sometimes less tooth structure needs to be removed compared with amalgam fillings when removing decay and preparing for the filling.
• loose teeth
• loss of teeth

Disadvantages of Composites Restoration

• Lack of durability — composite fillings wear out sooner than amalgam fillings (lasting at least five years compared with at least 10 to 15 for amalgams); in addition, they may not last as long as amalgam fillings under the pressure of chewing and particularly if used for large cavities.
• Increased chair time — because of the process to apply the composite material, these fillings can take up to 20 minutes longer than amalgam fillings to place.
• Additional visits — if composites are used for inlays or onlays, more than one office visit may be required.
• Chipping — depending on location, composite materials can chip off the tooth.
• Expense — composite fillings can cost up to twice the cost of amalgam fillings.

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