Pick a filling after knowing about different options of it!

Do you have a damaged or decay tooth? If so, then you need to go for dental fillings. It is a way to treat the cavity by filling the decayed tooth with the filling material. Not only this filling is also beneficial in treating broken or cracked tooth, which get worn out due to any reason like tooth grinding, accident and so on.

Today, various kinds of dental filling materials are there like amalgam, gold, composite resin, porcelain and glass ionomer. However, to make a choice amongst them can be a difficult situation for an individual. This is where cosmetic dentist of Manhattancomes into picture!

Other than making you familiarize with the names of fillings, a dentist would let you know about it in detail. And after knowing the effectiveness and lifespan of each of the fillings, you would be able to make choice that suits best to you.

Let’s have a look at the different types of dental fillings:

• Gold filling: Usually most of the people preferred amalgam fillings due to its longevity feature. But today with the upcoming of latest cosmetic dentistry techniques, gold filling is one type of dental filling that is preferred over amalgam (because it is dark in color, which gives bad appearance to ones teeth). Though it is more costly than amalgam but it features (durable, do not damage other teeth’s, appears nice) makes worth going for it.
• Porcelain filling: Also as inlays or onlays, this is another best type of dental filling, which is preferred over gold filling because it do not cost much as gold filling does. Moreover, nor it has dark color and neither it is gold in appearance, porcelain fillings best part is that it blends with our tooth shades. Besides the color factor, it is durable, withstand biting and can even be applied on front teeth’s.
• Composite filling: It is made with the mixture of glass like particles and acrylic resin. It has same features as that of gold and porcelain (durable and longevity) but do differs in cost. However, if one wants to get same natural tooth color then one can also opt for composite filling other than porcelain.
• Mercury tooth fillings: Whether it’s Manhattan or any other part of the globe, amalgam or mercury filling has been one of the most popular fillings till now because of its features of durability, longevity, withstand biting and chewing. It comprises of 45% of mercury and 55% other metals (silver, tin and copper). Along with few advantages, its disadvantage is that it is silver in color, which gives a bad appearance to ones teeth. This is the reason why dentist prefer using silver filling on molar teeth’s.
• Glass ionomer: People who are suffering from root caries and require fillings for under or near the teeth gums, they are said to go for glass ionomer fillings. The fluoride that is being released form this filling helps in further strengthening of the enamel.