Composite Fillings

Dental cavities don’t hurt, and you don’t even realize you have cavities until you go for a dental checkup. However, the lack of obvious symptoms makes cavities even more dangerous, allowing them to spread until the infection reaches your pulp chamber, necessitating root canal treatment.

If you allow the cavity to continue spreading, it may expose your nerves and compromise the tooth’s structure, leading to further infection in other parts of your teeth. Filling the cavity prevents bacteria buildup and infections. It also strengthens your tooth, protecting it against cracks and fractures.

Cavity fillings can be made of several materials, including gold, silver amalgam, porcelain, plastic, or composite resin. Some of these types of cavity fillings are highly visible, such as silver amalgam and gold fillings. Others, like porcelain and composite resin, are tooth-colored cavity fillings.

You can get visible dental fillings like gold and silver amalgam for some of the less-visible teeth that no one can see. Composite resin is the ideal material for cavity fillings because it looks like enamel, in both texture and color. As such, no one can tell you’ve had dental fillings.

• Natural Appearance: Composite resin fillings match your existing teeth in shade, color, and texture. As such, they camouflage with your teeth, making it hard to identify with the naked eye.
• Bonding: Composite fillings easily bond with your existing dental structure, ensuring complete support and durability.
• Versatile: Composite resin is the ideal fillings material for cavities, cracks, worn teeth, chipped teeth, and other issues. As such, composite fillings are extremely versatile.
• Conservative Procedure: Some of the other types of dental fillings require a large part of your tooth’s structure to be removed. However, composite fillings only need the infected parts to be removed, making it a slightly more conservative procedure.

During the initial consultation, the dentist will examine your teeth and check for cavities to determine the ideal cavity treatment plan. Before the tooth filling procedure, he will numb the region surrounding the tooth with local anesthesia, so you don’t feel anything.

Once the anesthesia sets in, the dentist will use a drill, laser, or an air abrasion device to remove the decayed parts of the cavity. Our dentist will choose the appropriate device for your cavities. Following the removal, the dentist will probe the area to ensure all of the decay has been removed.

After the infection is removed, the dentist will prepare the cavity by cleaning it and removing all the bacteria and debris. If the dental decay spreads deep and reaches close to the root, the dentist will place a composite resin or glass ionomer material to protect the nerve from damage.

The dentist will start filling the cavity with a tooth-colored composite resin material that’s applied in layers. Once all the layers are applied, the dentist uses a special light to harden the composite resin within the cavity. Finally, the dentist will shave and shape the composite resin to ensure optimal alignment of bite force.