Tooth Colored Fillings

Fillings for West Palm Beach – Palm Beach Gardens & Jupiter area Patients

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.

Tooth Colored Composite Fillings

 Composite fillings provide good durability and resistance to fracture in small-to-mid size restorations that need to withstand moderate chewing pressure. Composites can also be “bonded” or adhesively held in a cavity, often allowing us to make a more conservative repair to the tooth.

The cost is moderate and depends on the size of the filling and the technique used by the dentist to place it in the prepared tooth. Composite fillings require a cavity that can be kept clean and dry during filling and they are subject to stain and discoloration over time.

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