If your teeth are filled with dark metal amalgam fillings, your smile may be aging your appearance, and discoloured teeth can cause embarrassment.
Of most concern to your dentist, however, is that metal fillings can also damage teeth. Amalgams expand with heat and contract with cold. This movement weakens the tooth wall, leading to fractures and allowing bacteria to enter and cause decay.
Tooth-coloured composite fillings are a stronger, more attractive and more enduring alternative to metal. They conservatively restore your teeth to strength and your smile to beauty. Our dentists use only non-metal restorative fillings.
To fill a cavity, your dentist may first give you “freezing” (local anesthetic) so you do not feel any pain. Your dentist then removes all traces of decay, shapes the cavity and fills it.