Dental Filling Facts

Our featured article this month on Dental Filling Facts comes from the American Dental Association. Their articles are continually updated so we are linking directly to their site to answer questions about your dental care.

From the American Dental Association:

"Overview

Thanks to advances in modern dental materials and techniques, dentists have more ways to create pleasing, natural-looking smiles. Dental researchers are continuing their often decades-long work developing materials, such as ceramics and polymer compounds that look more like natural teeth. As a result, dentists and patients today have several choices when it comes to selecting materials to repair missing, worn, damaged or decayed teeth.
 
 These new materials have not eliminated the usefulness of more traditional dental materials, such as gold, base metal alloys and dental amalgam. That’s because the strength and durability of traditional dental materials continue to make them useful for situations, such as fillings in the back teeth where chewing forces are greatest." http://ada.org/public/topics/fillings.asp

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