Posts Categorized: Fillings

How Fillings Treat Cavities

The bad news about cavities is that nearly anyone can get one. The good news is that, even if you do develop a hole in your tooth, there’s an effective, tailor-made solution to restore your tooth’s good health. In most cases, that answer is often dental fillings, which can treat cavities by conforming to their shape to… Read more »

Talking About the White Kind of Fillings

If you go in for a dental checkup and find out that you have a cavity, your dentist will recommend expedient treatment. Cavities are simply bacterial infections and they have to be professionally cleaned and filled. The bacteria that cause tooth decay will spread and create more cavities and extended tooth damage if not treated… Read more »

Amalgam Fillings: Fact or Fiction?

Composite resin is not a new material in cosmetic dentistry. In fact, tooth-colored composites have played an important role in improving the cosmetic appearance of fillings over the years. You may even have a composite filling in your mouth as your read this. There are more than 100 different forms of composite resin material to… Read more »

White Fillings May be the “White” Choice

There are many people walking around on this earth with amalgam fillings which they’ve had in their mouths for many years. Concerns of mercury exposure from amalgam is nothing new, but the scant amount in a tiny dental filling has never proven to be dangerous. That said, improvements in dental restoration materials have allowed dentists… Read more »