Porcelain Fillings
Advances in modern dental materials and techniques increasingly offer new ways to create more pleasing, natural-looking smiles. Researchers are continuing their often decades-long work developing esthetic materials, such as ceramic and plastic compounds that mimic the appearance of natural teeth. As a result, dentists and patients today have several choices when it comes to selecting materials used to repair missing, worn, damaged or decayed teeth. There are numerous factors that influence the performance, durability, longevity, and expense of dental restorations, including the filling material components, where and how the filling is place, and the chewing load the tooth will have to bear.
There are two types of dental restorations: direct and indirect. Direct restorations are fillings placed immediately into a prepared cavity in a single visit, and can include dental amalgam, resin fillings, and glass ionomers. Indirect restorations, on the other hand, generally require two or more visits and include inlays as well as onlays; indirect restorations often involve taking an impression of the area, and sending it to a dental laboratory where the restoration is created. Regardless of which type you need, Dover Dental and Dr. Sahafi are prepared and highly experienced in this area of dental restoration.
