If you need a new filling, then have a white one, please. When we put in a silver filling we have to remove a greater amount of healthy tooth material than when we use white composite material. This means the tooth is much stronger with a white filling and more likely to withstand years of chewing.<\/p>\n Less chance of decay under white fillings<\/strong><\/p>\n When we put in a white filling, we layer in the composite material, curing each layer with a special light. It bonds seamlessly to the sides of the cavity, leaving no space for decay-causing bacteria to be able to sneak in. Silver fillings are packed into the cavity, tight against the inside of the tooth, but there is no way to bond the two together, so there is always the chance for decay to happen underneath the filling.<\/p>\n White fillings have replica chewing surfaces<\/strong><\/p>\n When you have white fillings, we build up the layers and when they have been hardened we can sculpt them to recreate the mounds and valley of your lost molar. We\u2019ll get you to bite down on carbon paper every now and then as we sculpt so we can make sure your teeth bite together really well. Conversely, amalgam, which is a pretty soft material, cannot be sculpted and so you end with a tooth with a flat centre to it, which is far less efficient at grinding up your food for swallowing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Silver fillings. They\u2019re not truly silver, are they? They\u2019re not made of silver, and frankly, they don\u2019t look silver either. In your mouth, they look dark, glinty grey. They may protect your teeth, but they don\u2019t do a whole lot for your image, and if you\u2019ve got a lot of them, you may feel too … Continue reading Silver, it\u2019s not a good look<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-replace-old-silver-fillings"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1805,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/1805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amsel-wilkins.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Teeth filled with white fillings are stronger<\/strong><\/p>\n