Fight Tooth Decay: Know The Best Dental Fillings Procedures

The very important and common question is how to fight tooth decay? How the local dentists in Wimbledon offer you the best treatment? Well, the solution is dental filling. Now you would ask what dental filling is! Dental filling is a particular treatment procedure to repair a damaged tooth. But the filling process is used mainly to protect tooth damaged by decaying and then to bring it back to its normal shape and task. To apply the filling process your dentist will at first remove the decayed tooth material, then will clean the affected area and there will be a cavity in your tooth after removing the damaged part. Here the dentists at Marton area in Wimbledon will start to fill the cavity to protect your tooth from further decaying.

How it is done?

Dentists apply different process as required by the patient. Mainly there are 4 types of dental fillings different from one another considering their material.  Materials used for dental fillings are usually – gold, amalgam (an amalgamation of copper, mercury, silver, tin etc.), porcelain and/or a composite resin, and an amalgam (an alloy of mercury, silver, copper, tin and sometimes zinc).

Best Suitable Type for you

As we said that there are different types of fillings, so you may be confused in choosing the most suitable one for your dental condition. Here again the Dentists will help you to choose the correct one. Not any single type of dental filling is suitable for all. The dentists depend on few factors like – the extent of the filling, if the patient has any allergy with any of the materials used in a particular type of filling, the place in your mouth where the filling is required, and obviously the patient’s budget.

Know the Types

Your doctor will help you to choose the best suitable type of filling for your tooth. But you should know some of the basic information about the types of dental fillings as well the basics about the dental fillings procedures to gather an idea how long it would take, or how much it would cost and else.

• Firstly about the Gold fillings – these fillings are custom-built in dental laboratory and then tiled into the cavity. These gold fillings are commonly well endured by gum tissues, and may continue for more than 20 years. That’s the reason why people often consider this filling even after its high costing.
• The Amalgam fillings are strong but comparatively low-cost. Though it is cost-effective, due to dark colour and its visibility these fillings are avoided mainly in front tooth.
• Another one type of filling is the Composite resins which are matched to be of identical colour as your teeth and hence used where a natural look is preferred. In the case of amalgamated filling all the materials are mixed and put on directly into the cavity, where they get coagulated. But these fillings are not good for larger cavity and wear eventually and also get stained.
• Finally the Porcelain fillings which are also custom-made in lab and then attached to the tooth. These can be matched with your tooth colour and also stain resistant. This type of filling costs more or less the same as gold fillings.