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Dental Fillings
There are only very few
people who manage to avoid having cavity.
If you’re like majority of people you probably have experienced a
cavity. A cavity calls for your dentist
to remove the decay and to fill in the tooth area that was removed in order to
prevent further decay and strengthen the affected tooth. There have been lots
of advances in modern dentistry that make this process much more comfortable
and use materials that are safer and more esthetically pleasing.
Lots of people still have
had amalgam fillings (silver) or gold filling restorations. Lots of these
fillings contain mercury which was said to be poisonous to the body as well as
the environment. The amounts of mercury
in the fillings however are not significant enough to be a real threat but
amalgam fillings are generally not as advantageous as composite fillings
because they demand more of a tooth removal, are susceptible to corrosion.
Composite resin dental
fillings were created as an alternative to traditional metal dental fillings. Tooth
fillings colored to look like a natural tooth are known as Composite Resin
Dental Fillings and are made of a plastic dental resin combined with porcelain
and glass particles. These types of
fillings are, durable and are way more natural looking than amalgam fillings.
If you have a cavity in a
tooth or broken fillings or if your teeth are full of mercury fillings, or
amalgam fillings you may want to ask your dentist about changing to composite
dental fillings . Mercury fillings or amalgam fillings can easily be removed
and replaced with far more attractive colored fillings. Research shows that
composite fillings actually strengthen your tooth and further protect it from
decay.
Because of their
natural-looking composites, white fillings also the appearance of any tooth. Some dental insurance plans may consider the
replacing of metal fillings with composite resin fillings to improve your smile
a cosmetic procedure. But if you have cracked fillings or broken fillings, your
dentist can submit the required forms to your insurance. Typically your dental
insurance coverage may reimburse you for composite fillings.
Most insurance companies
will cover a portion of the costs -- %50 - %80 at the most. Because composite resin fillings are more
time consuming and the materials are slightly more expensive, the procedure is more
expensive than amalgam fillings. Although costs vary across the country and by
dental office, the cost of typical metal filling ranges from approximately $75
to $145 per filling compared to a composite resin fillings that range from $150
to $200 per filling.
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