Restoring
Your Smile : Dental Filling Choices
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Dental
restorations...
choosing the right
filling.
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Advances
in modern dental materials and techniques increasingly
offer new ways to create more pleasing, natural-looking
smiles. Researchers are continuing their often
decades-long work developing esthetic materials,
such as ceramic and plastic compounds that mimic
the appearance of natural teeth. As a result,
dentists and patients today have several choices
when it comes to selecting materials used to repair
missing, worn, damaged or decayed teeth. The advent
of these new materials has not eliminated the
usefulness of more traditional dental restoratives,
which include gold, base metal alloys and dental
amalgam.
What’s
Right for Me?
Several factors influence the performance, durability,
longevity and expense of dental restorations.
These factors include: the components used in
the filling material; where and how the filling
is placed; the chewing load that the tooth will
have to bear; and the length and number of visits
needed to prepare and adjust the restored tooth.
Start
by speaking with your dentist. Dr. Bordeaux can
tell you which filling choices would be effective
for you.
