Sarasota Non-Metal Fillings Glossary

People that still have the old fashioned, dark metal fillings may feel like it’s time for a change. Recent advances in modern dentistry have made it possible to combine both beauty and strength when filling teeth. Natural looking, tooth colored fillings (also know as composites, resins, onlays, inlays or porcelains) are safer, stronger, and more attractive alternatives to the obsolete metal fillings.

Composite fillings are used in both the front and back teeth and can be made on-site and completed in only one office visit. During the procedure, your mercury fillings are replaced with a porcelain material that is close to rivaling nature in strength, wearability, function, and appearance.

Metal amalgams expand and contract when exposed to heat and cold, which weakens the tooth wall and causes fractures. Composites are much safer for teeth and much more enduring in function.

The composites are a very hard "plastic" that fuse to the tooth to hold the tooth together. Composites are bonded to the teeth with exacting technique so that the tooth is restored to its original strength in the most conservative fashion.

The advantages of non-metal fillings are that they make teeth stronger, much less of the tooth needs to be removed with non-metal fillings and they are virtually invisible. Without question, tooth colored fillings are more cosmetically appealing.

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