Ceramic Tooth Filling

Dental restoration dental fillings or simply fillings are treatments used to restore the function integrity and morphology of missing tooth structure resulting from caries or external trauma as well as to the replacement of such structure supported by dental implants.

Ceramic tooth filling.

Tooth sparing preparation sometimes less tooth structure needs to be removed compared with amalgam fillings when removing decay and preparing for the filling. Resin composite fillings are a soft plastic that is blended with ceramic or glass to help make them stronger. They bond with your teeth helping to seal a cavity against leakage to prevent decay around the filling. Advantages of the ceramic.

They are of two broad types direct and indirect and are further classified by location and size. A ceramic cavity filling usually made of porcelain is tooth colored and it may be less likely to show tooth stains over time than a composite cavity filling. Front teeth restored with ceramic laminates broken tooth restored with ceramic laminate. This blend of acrylic and glass is used to create a cavity filling.

Tooth colored fillings come in two main types. Resin composite and ceramic. These fillings are good. Amalgam filling replaced with ceramic filling.

But price is a factor a ceramic filling can be nearly as expensive as a gold cavity filling.